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Report: How We Won: The Activists Who Put a Stop to TUI’s Deportation Flights

by Sophie K Rosa

After just over a year of organising, a group of activists successfully ended airline TUI’s involvement in Home Office deportation flights. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Report: How We Won: The Mother Who Stopped Her Son’s Deportation

by Mark Montegriffo

A mother, with the help of the public, activists, journalists, celebrities and MPs, fought the Home Office to successfully stop the deportation of her autistic son Osime Brown. Mark Montegriffo reports.

Report: A Deportation Flight Just Left for Vietnam. Why Was It So Hard to Stop?

by Rivkah Brown

Despite the valiant efforts of activists, the Home Office flight went ahead as planned on Wednesday afternoon. Rivkah Brown looks at why it couldn’t be stopped.

Priti Patel stands beside a number of French border guards in Calais, all wearing face masks.

Report: Under ‘Extreme’ New Immigration Rules, Britain Can Deport Asylum Seekers to Any Country That Will Take Them

by Rivkah Brown

Rule changes snuck in by the Home Office in December theoretically allow the department to send asylum applicants anywhere in the world. In practice, more people will be forced into inhumane and indefinite immigration detention. Rivkah Brown reports.

Opinion: The Home Office Doesn’t Care Who It Deports – the Jamaica Flight Proved This

by Nadia Whittome

Activists and lawyers should not have had to intervene this week to stop the Tories deporting people with a legal right to be in the UK, writes Nadia Whittome MP. The Jamaica deportation flight shows that for the Home Office, if you're black, poor and have a foreign passport, that's enough to fast-track you out.

Report: Stop the Flight: Jamaica Deportation Shows Tories ‘Doubling Down’ on Hostile Environment, Activists Say

by Sophie K Rosa

Just a week after a report found the government’s hostile environment policies broke equalities law and contributed to injustices faced by the Windrush generation, the Home Office plans to deport up to 50 men to Jamaica on Wednesday. Sophie K Rosa reports as activists race to stop the flight.

Report: Deportation Flights to the EU Have Increased Threefold, As the UK Rushes to Return Asylum Seekers Before Brexit

by Rivkah Brown

Exclusive: The UK has chartered as many deportation flights to the EU so far in 2020 as in the past three years combined, in a bid to accelerate the removal of asylum seekers before Brexit. Rivkah Brown reports.

Report: The UK is Rushing to Deport Asylum Seekers Before Brexit, New Data Shows

by Rivkah Brown

Exclusive: The UK is rushing to return asylum seekers to the EU before Brexit makes it harder to do so. Data obtained by Novara Media shows the UK made up to 154% more transfer requests to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland and Denmark this year, an uptick lawyers say has resulted in a catalogue of harmful and unlawful failings. Rivkah Brown reports.

Report: Asylum Seekers Isolated in Hotels Are Facing Far-Right Violence

by Matthew Ponsford

The Home Office has moved thousands of asylum seekers from detention centres to hotels to ‘enable social distancing’ during the pandemic. Now, these new arrivals are facing not only deportation, but the threat of far-right violence. Matthew Ponsford reports.

Report: ‘We’d Prefer to Die in the UK Than Go Back’: The Refugees on Hunger Strike Against Deportation

by Laith Saad

22 refugees at notorious immigration removal centre Brook House have gone on hunger strike in protest of their imminent deportations. Laith Saad reports.

Opinion: The Jamaica Charter Flight Underscores the UK’s Broken Deportation System

by Rudy Schulkind

Despite public outcry a deportation flight has forcibly removed fathers from their families, to a country some don’t even remember. Rudy Schulkind asks, how did we get here?

Power Beyond Borders: Climate Activists Target the Hostile Environment

by Charlotte England

Inside the climate camp where people within the environmental justice movement are learning to work together with activists on the frontline of fighting for migrants’ rights.

15 Things the Stansted 15 Did Right

by Sam Walton

On 6 February, the Stansted 15 - a group of activists who stopped a deportation flight - were sentenced after being found guilty of terror-related offences. In the face of a judge who wanted to find them guilty from the moment they stepped into court, avoiding imprisonment was a real achievement. Here are 15 things the Stansted 15 did right.

Ash Wednesday: Ash Sarkar Meets the Stansted 15

The Stansted 15 have avoided immediate jail sentences. Ash Sarkar attended their sentencing at Chelmsford Crown Court in solidarity and talked to them about the wider implications of their case, the hostile environment and deportation charter flights in the UK.

Explainers: What Is the Hostile Environment?

British children sleeping on night buses or in storage units, torture survivors required to pay upfront for medical treatment, these are just some of the consequences of Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’. In this explainer video; Migrants Rights Specialist Rockhaya Sylla unpacks some of the origins and repercussions of this harmful set of policies.

UCU picketers must act in solidarity with hunger strikers in Yarl's Wood because their struggles are intrinsically linked. The inhumane border control system that makes international students fear failing to meet their visa requirements and puts the unwanted duty of immigration policing on to university staff, also creates detention centres.

Long Read: “Target/Tackle”: A Hostile Environment for the Homeless

by North East London Migrant Action

Three of the UK’s biggest homelessness charities are collaborating with Home Office immigration enforcement teams on the detention and deportation of European rough sleepers.

Tag: deportation

Report: How We Won: The Activists Who Put a Stop to TUI’s Deportation Flights

by Sophie K Rosa

Report: How We Won: The Mother Who Stopped Her Son’s Deportation

by Mark Montegriffo

Report: A Deportation Flight Just Left for Vietnam. Why Was It So Hard to Stop?

by Rivkah Brown

Report: Under ‘Extreme’ New Immigration Rules, Britain Can Deport Asylum Seekers to Any Country That Will Take Them

by Rivkah Brown

Opinion: The Home Office Doesn’t Care Who It Deports – the Jamaica Flight Proved This

by Nadia Whittome

Report: Stop the Flight: Jamaica Deportation Shows Tories ‘Doubling Down’ on Hostile Environment, Activists Say

by Sophie K Rosa

Report: Deportation Flights to the EU Have Increased Threefold, As the UK Rushes to Return Asylum Seekers Before Brexit

by Rivkah Brown

Report: The UK is Rushing to Deport Asylum Seekers Before Brexit, New Data Shows

by Rivkah Brown

Report: Asylum Seekers Isolated in Hotels Are Facing Far-Right Violence

by Matthew Ponsford

Report: ‘We’d Prefer to Die in the UK Than Go Back’: The Refugees on Hunger Strike Against Deportation

by Laith Saad

Opinion: The Jamaica Charter Flight Underscores the UK’s Broken Deportation System

by Rudy Schulkind

Power Beyond Borders: Climate Activists Target the Hostile Environment

by Charlotte England

15 Things the Stansted 15 Did Right

by Sam Walton

Ash Wednesday: Ash Sarkar Meets the Stansted 15

Explainers: What Is the Hostile Environment?

Britain’s Plan to Build a Prison in Nigeria is Wrong and Must Be Stopped

by Natalie Fiennes

With University Staff Forced to Act like Border Guards, Striking Lecturers Must Show Solidarity with Yarl’s Wood

by Dan Davison

Long Read: “Target/Tackle”: A Hostile Environment for the Homeless

by North East London Migrant Action