International borders are not human rights-free zones.
Yet reports increasingly document widespread abuses at EU borders, including unlawful profiling, torture, gender-based violence and arbitrary detention
Record low levels of legal representation in detention
Bail for Immigration Detainees has published their latest Legal Advice Survey. It finds the lowest levels of legal representation in immigration...
@fullfact.org found that since 2018, there have been 12 days on which at least 1,000 migrants were recorded as arriving by small boats. The average daily number of arrivals is considerably lower — the average since Labour took office is around 100 migrants a day.
That is how division takes hold. That is how innocent people become targets. And, quite literally this week, that is how communities are set on fire.
Everyone deserves to feel safe in their home and community. There is no place for racism or anti-refugee hate.
Bail for Immigration Detainees has published their latest Legal Advice Survey. It finds the lowest levels of legal representation in immigration detention in BID's 15 year records - with only...
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1. The asylum appeal backlog has risen to 87,450 cases, according to the latest quarterly tribunal statistics. Appeals lodged actually fell, but with fewer than 7,000 decided per quarter, the queue keeps growing. Waiting times are now around three years.
Our Executive Director, Lavanya Pallapi:
"This violence against racialised people, particularly Muslims and migrants, has been fanned by government, media and the state, funded by corporate actors and billionaires."
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