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Inadequate training, barriers to healthcare and the burden of proof: Home Office FOI Responses
Earlier this year, we received responses from the Home Office to our Freedom of Information (FOI) requests regarding the treatment of queer and trans+ migrants, including people seeking asylum, in the UK immigration system. It has been disappointingly difficult to get any real answers from the Home Office – many of these responses revolved around…
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Deportations are about to ramp up
The Government has just announced its plans to deport 14,500 undocumented migrants within six months, via the expansion of detention and removal centres, and the expansion of the National Crime Agency, part of the Border Security Command, through the deployment of up to 100 new specialist intelligence and investigations officers, to target “people smuggling gangs”…
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Joint letter to PM against facial recognition technology expansion plans
We wrote to the PM as a coalition of human rights, racial justice, migrants’ rights and civil liberties groups following his statement on the recent far right violence across the country and plans to introduce a “wider deployment of facial recognition technology.” We joined him in condemning the racist, violent and disorderly scenes across the…