Last year six people died in or shortly after transfer from immigration lock-up. Carlington Spencer, held at Morton Hall, died aged 38. This is his story. Part one.
One Saturday at a London drop-in for children fleeing crime gangs and blood feuds.
As well as newfound sympathy for the Windrush generation, we should remember that ‘illegal immigrants’ are our kin, especially if we are to challenge the racism of the ‘hostile environment’.
Hardline policies have failed in their stated aim of reducing immigration. Is their true purpose to impress particular voters?
British migration policy forces working class families to choose between country and the people they love.
Access to justice has diminished almost to vanishing point, leaving asylum seekers and irregular migrants at risk of exploitation.
A review of Alan White’s Who Really Runs Britain? — the private companies taking control of benefits, prisons, asylum, deportation, security, social care and the NHS.
Security company G4S housed six families with babies and toddlers in a fire-trap hostel in Halifax.
Highly unusual punitive damages awarded to Felix Wamala, who was subjected to intensely painful, dangerous restraint techniques.
At a locked down shareholders’ meeting, security company boss sidestepped hard questions, praised BBC exposé of abuse.
When Theresa May’s Britain grants asylum, a brutal 28 day countdown starts.
Government visa fees tell would-be immigrants that in the UK, money talks ...
