Stop Deportations!

An emergency protest was held in Glasgow earlier today against a planned mass deportation of Nigerian asylum seekers, set to take place on a specially charted flight overnight tonight. Among those who have been detained by the UK Border Agency over the past week are three Glasgow-based asylum seekers, including one who has been resident [...]

Déjà vu all over again for asylum seeking children…

The government has announced that they will no longer lock up asylum seeking kids. Coincidentally, I have the strangest sense of déjà vu… We’ll have to wait and see if they’re got their fingers crossed behind their backs this time, too, or whether they’re actually capable of doing what they say they will. Nick Clegg [...]

They belong to Glasgow!

Over three hundred people gathered in Glasgow’s George Square earlier today to protest the UK Border Agency’s decision to axe Glasgow City Council’s contract to house hundreds of families seeking asylum in the UK. This comes after talks broke down between the Border Agency and the council over the grant given to the local authority [...]

Clegg: Lies, then gets in trouble for telling the truth!

More evidence, as if it was needed, that Nick Clegg is a giant walking sack of shit with a ministerial car: yesterday at Prime Minister’s questions he said the government was going to close Yarl’s Wood, a hellhole private prison for asylum seekers who have done nothing wrong. But, a bit like when the Lib [...]

Asylum seekers now free to go to Kylie concerts and drink multi-coloured cocktails, yay!

Could asylum seekers BE any more fabulous?!? Not only do they manage to escape their own countries after fleeing terrible persecution, they manage to make a new life for themselves here despite the British government persecuting them just as much – as well as managing to royally piss off the right wing press on an [...]

Kids in jail: another Lib Dem sellout

The ConDem government has announced what should be good news: the practice of detaining children at Dungavel is to end. Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre is a prison for asylum seekers who are to be deported. Parents with children have been held there, in some cases for more than a year. However, the fact that in [...]

Barking isn't Barking.

Since 2001 the BNP have made steady inroads into British politics, gradually building up a significant base in local councils, and expanding slowly but surely into other arenas – winning a seat on the Greater London Assembly and their highpoint last year, winning 2 seats in the European Parliament. It’s almost been a grudging acceptance [...]

Asylum Myth-Busting

We’ve had a lot of stuff on the blog recently about the way in which immigration and asylum are being treated in this election – from Labour lumping the subject in as ‘crime and immigration’ in their manifesto, to Brown, Cameron and Clegg all trying to outflank each other on the right while talking about [...]

More immigrants = less BNP. Yay!

The Institute for Public Policy Research  have been analysing support for the BNP and trying to determine what causes communities to turn towards the far-right. You can see their findings here. The BNP would have us believe they are supported by people whose communities are over-run with immigrants and asylum seekers. But they’re lying. The [...]

Hundreds March for Asylum Rights

Hundreds of local residents and people from across Glasgow marched through the city earlier today in memory of Red Road flat residents the Serykh family, who were driven to suicide last weekend reportedly following the failure of their asylum application. The demonstration gathered at the Red Road flats, one of the main areas in which [...]

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