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Right to Work Checks Can’t Be Reformed

The Challenge the Checks campaign does not simply wish to reform right to work checks, we want to abolish them. However, we know this is a goal that will take time to achieve, so we are pushing for non-reformist reforms. These are changes to a system with the aim of working towards it being completely […]

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”

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

Letter to Prime Minister on far-right violence

With 80 anti-racist and migrant rights organisations, we’ve written to the Prime Minister asking for Parliament to be recalled to address far-right attacks spreading across the country. The Government must address the rampant racism, Islamophobia and anti-migrant hate fuelling this violence. Thank you to our friends at Runnymede Trust for coordinating this letter.

Racism in action

by MRN and Islamophobia Response Unit Far-right violence is spreading from Southport to Manchester and Whitehall accompanied by Islamophobic, racist and anti-migrant chants. The violence followed rampant misinformation online including comments by Tommy Robinson in which he linked the attack with Islam and migrants, whereby he actively encouraged protests against ‘asylum hotel owners’. This led

Stammering at the Border 

I recently told a fellow migrant friend that crossing the UK Border was always a frightening, stressful experience and they asked, well-meaningly, what I even had to fear considering I have nothing to hide and most things in my favour? She was right in a sense — though both non-White and migrant, I have the

The Border Security Bill: where anti-migrant policies meet counter-terrorism

The new Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill brings oppressive counter-terrorism powers into immigration. The Bill announced as part of the King’s Speech is part of a turn towards approaching migration through counter-terror, making space for even greater surveillance of and denial of rights for migrants. The Bill will propose powers that have previously been

The Government’s new migration measures

The new Government has quickly turned its attention to deterring people from the Global South from coming to the UK.  At the same time as announcing the Border Security Bill that would embed an oppressive counter-terrorism approach to ‘preventing small boats crossings’, it is also seemingly taking measures to tackle the “root causes” of displacement.

Whataboutism doesn’t help anyone

What is whataboutism? Whataboutism is deflection from one social justice issue to another. It is a tactic of derailment that demonstrates not only a lack of solidarity and a misunderstanding of a key element of social justice: shared struggle. Essentially in a debate, one issue is weaponised, and is brought up to detract or minimise

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