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Comment: report condemning immigration detention shows why this barbaric process must be abolished
The Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry into immigration detention has released its report which strongly censures “every part of the immigration detention system”. The inquiry was initially triggered in response to the BBC’s ‘Panora ...
25th March 2019Government “won’t have any idea” how many EU citizens lack immigration status after Brexit
The Home Office will have no idea how many EU residents are left undocumented by Brexit because it does not collect or release the necessary data, a leading immigration policy expert has warned. Madeleine Sumption said yesterday that the government ha ...
10th October 2018Is the tide turning on media coverage of migrants?
Yesterday afternoon, the Home Affairs committee of MPs had before it a selection of the nation’s newspaper editors. The subject of questioning: “whether there is an issue with treatment of minority groups in the print media”. Anyone ...
25th April 2018MPs’ report scathing on Home Office capacity to cope with Brexit
The Home Affairs Committee of MPs today published its report on whether or not the Home Office has the capacity to deliver effective immigration services once the UK leaves the European Union next March. No, is the short answer. Not a lot of love from ...
14th February 2018Ministers still struggle with meaning of “indefinite” detention
Asked on 21 November about any link between people being kept in indefinite immigration detention and those same people using drugs, Home Office minister Brandon Lewis replied: We don’t have indefinite detention, so… It was an assertion Le ...
22nd November 2017