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Protection not Punishment. Say no to the Border Security Bill
The new Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (a.k.a. Border Security Bill) will turn seeking protection into a national security issue and expand counter-terrorism powers. Ask your MP to vote against this Bill. What will the new Bill do? Further criminalise immigration to the UK by targeting the people who facilitate the travel of undocumented…
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Counter-terror and the Border Security Bill
On 30th January, the Government introduced the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Border Security Bill). We are incredibly alarmed about the introduction of a counter-terror approach to migration, particularly in relation to refugees and people seeking asylum. This Government’s approach abdicates their responsibility for creating the situations of harm and pushing them into the…
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Misgendering as state policy: Transphobia and the expansion of violence against migrants
Interim changes were brought in on 22nd January to the policy governing the treatment of trans+ people in immigration detention. There is no timeline for when new guidance will be brought in to replace previous guidance that governed trans+ people in all kinds of detention, including immigration detention and prisons. Even still, the interim guidance…