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A person with long brown hair, medium-dark skin and a purple top carries a white banner on which is written in black, red and purple lettering: 'Stop the Deportations'

Opinion: We Could Get Life in Prison for Blocking a Deportation Flight

by Griff Ferris

Threatening peaceful protesters with life in prison is authoritarianism, plain and simple. We aren't going to stand for it – and nor should you, writes immigration activist Griff Ferris.

A far-right protester at a demonstration outside a hotel in Rotherham.

Feature: Asylum Seekers in South London Are Resisting Removal to a Bedfordshire Hotel Targeted by the Far Right

by Charlotte England

A group of asylum seekers has been resisting eviction from a south London hotel for the last three weeks. But layers of outsourcing mean they don't even know who's trying to move them. Charlotte England reports.

Image shows protesters outside Manston asylum centre in Kent, holding two banners. The one of the right reads 'Close down Manston'. The one on the left reads 'No borders, no nations, stop deportations'.

Opinion: We Went to Manston Asylum Centre – This Is a Politically Manufactured Crisis

by Joseph Maggs & Nadia Hasan

The scandal surrounding inhumane conditions at the Kent immigration facility is years in the making.

A line of police officers block the entrance to Ashwin Street in Dalston, north London

Feature: Couriers Stunt Dalston’s Gentrification. The Police and Council Want Them Gone

by Rivkah Brown

Saturday night’s immigration raid in Dalston, north London is part of a years-long effort to cleanse the area of its brown and Black couriers. Rivkah Brown reports.

Opinion: Britain Has Never Been Welcoming to Refugees

by Daniel Sohege

From Russia's war with Ukraine to the second world war, the nostalgic myth of Britain being welcoming to refugees is exactly that; a myth. Daniel Sohege explains.

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.

Priti Patel hostile environment coronavirus briefing union jack

Analysis: The Hostile Environment Is Putting Everyone at Greater Risk From Covid

by Ella Weldon

The hostile environment isn’t just endangering migrants during the pandemic, it’s endangering us all, writes Ella Weldon.

a group of women of colour hold a banner at a protest that reads: Black services for Black survivors

Opinion: The Tories Are Abandoning Migrant Women to Domestic Abuse

by Rebekah Pierre

The Domestic Abuse Act, passed in April 2021, was supposedly a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to protect women – just not the ones who need it most, writes former social worker Rebekah Pierre.

Analysis: With the New Nationality Bill, the Border is Breathing Down Our Necks

by Arianne Shahvisi

The Tories’ Nationality and Borders Bill passed on Wednesday. Arianne Shahvisi reflects on how many Black and minority ethnic UK citizens are increasingly being given second-class status.

Analysis: The Hostile Environment is Making Migrants Vulnerable to HIV

by James Greig

Until the government ends the hostile environment, which deters migrants from accessing vital healthcare, its plan to end HIV transmission by 2030 is a pipedream. James Greig reports.

The reddened face of Labour leader Keir Starmer

Opinion: In Keir Starmer’s Anti-Racist Universe, Palestinians Don’t Count

by Barnaby Raine

The Labour leader’s anti-Palestinian racism is classic colonialism with a contemporary twist, argues Barnaby Raine.

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.

Opinion: This Year’s England Squad Actually Gives a Shit

by Jessy Parker Humphreys

There's a lot to celebrate about the England team, but their Englishness has nothing to do with it, writes Jessy Parker Humphreys. These are the most politically engaged players the country has ever seen.

Home secretary Priti Patel smiling against the backdrop of a UK flag

Opinion: Priti Patel Isn’t Shipping Refugees to Rwanda Any Time Soon

by Nadia Hasan

The home secretary’s latest scheme to scare off asylum seekers? Send them 6,500 miles away. It isn’t going to happen - but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be worried.

Report: Clearsprings: The Worst Asylum Housing Provider You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

by Sophie K Rosa

You’ve never heard of them, but asylum seekers have. Clearsprings is one of the many companies to which the government outsources asylum accommodation, and widely known to be the worst.

Person's arm being injected with a vaccine

Report: Migrants Are Scared to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine – and the Hostile Environment Is to Blame

by Sophie K Rosa

Despite the government's assurances that anyone, regardless of their settlement status, can receive the coronavirus vaccine, many migrants are still afraid to do so. Sophie K Rosa looks at how the hostile environment has created a culture of fear around healthcare.

The Stansted 15 Have Won – What Can We Learn From Their Four-Year Legal Battle?

by Ali Tamlit, Helen Brewer, Laura Clayson and Nick Sigsworth

Last Friday, the so-called Stansted 15, a group of activists found guilty of terror-related offences after stopping a deportation charter flight, won their appeal to have their convictions overturned. Four of the members reflect on the last four years of legal proceedings: what happened, what went wrong and what comes next.