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8 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
If ending free movement was the most important aspect of Brexit (Tories) or you were happy to be entirely impassive over the fact that it inevitably had to end (Labour) & you were rabidly anti-immigrant (the press, among others) then you never had a soft Brexit on the table 🤷‍♀️
Despite the fact that many of us tried to change that. And I dont care how people wanna posthumously exonerate themselves in all directions. We were all there. We all know where we stood. Free movement was everybody's red line. In the end, Brexit in name only was untenable.
So, er. Here we are. A shit show that's going to damage too many protections to mention (looking fwd to the Tories' employment bill this year...) &, yes, all migrants are fucked over as usual, including folks from all over the world & the EU ones at risk of becoming undocumented.
Wow I obviously woke up in a fine festive mood lmao. We fight on, as ever, you know that. Pls keep writing to your MPs, informing people in your communities & supporting your friendly local migrant rights orgs to resist hostility & hate 😊
Fuck Brexit.

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9 Dec
Right, here is my BIG THOUGHT for today: Yes, radical, transformative change in our immigration system is 100% achievable and we can convince the country of it, too. Sorry for the long thread.

Here is why:
People have views on immigration. People, who in most cases know nothing about the facts of it whatsoever.

Opinion does not fluctuate with facts or policies. Not with the number of immigrants, nor with the strictness of the system they face. These are almost entirely unrelated.
In surveys measuring people's perceptions, people hugely overestimate the number of immigrants in the UK. They also hugely overestimate what percentage of immigrants are made up of any group they're asked about.
So if you're talking about asylum seekers...
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29 Nov
Conservative Home Secretaries sign THE deal that will FINALLY END irregular migration from France - A thread.
Theresa May: August 2015

New deal includes establishing a joint "control & command centre" and 500 more UK & FR police officers deployed in the area.

Cost to UK taxpayer: £7 million over 2 years
(on top of further £21 million spent on the issue under May in the preceding year)
Amber Rudd: August 2016

Bit wet this one, mainly words about closer cooperation, just 160 extra police on top of 1,000 already operating daily in the area.

Cost to UK taxpayer: Rudd was given no new funds, BUT £100 mil had already been pledged according to the text of her deal.
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22 Oct
Yesterday, the news was so relentlessly awful for the government. By half way through the day when the free school meals stuff really picked up I said the words out loud: look out for a tough-on-immigration headline tomorrow. #r4today... right on cue 😑
So what's this "new tough policy announcement"? #r4today is reporting that EU citizens with past prison sentences of one year or more will be "turned away" post-Brexit.
This makes no sense - we have established there will be visa-free travel with the EU, so how would they check?
Seems more likely EU citizens will be brought in line with existing rules for non-EU migrants on criminality, i.e. they'll face automatic deportation if they serve a prison sentence of over 12 months here in the UK.

If so, I cannot stress this enough, this is NOT NEWS. #r4today
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3 Sep
Oh gahd the @CommonsHomeAffs Home Affairs Committee is taking evidence from Dan O'Mahoney, "Clandestine Channel Threat Commander"

parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/d7…
Yvette Cooper notes top nationalities of people attempting to cross the Channel are Iran, Iraq and Syria. Are they all asylum seekers?

Yes, the vast majority if not all apply for asylum (i.e. do not seek to evade enforcement, are not seeking to live undocumented in the UK)
Abi Tierney, Director General, UK Visas and Immigration, says numbers are manageable, in fact the UK has seen a drop in overall figures of people seeking asylum.
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21 Aug
Ooooh there's a lot to unpack here.... And I dont know if I fully have the energy but let's have a go.

Yes, there's an extent to which western foreign military policy plays into global refugee flows. Historically, a very enormous extent. But directly in this way? Only an extent.
This type of argument presupposes that all global conflict lies at the feet of Western intervention which is.. at best a little naval-gazing.
Give global tyrants their due: plenty of them control, repress, torture, ethnically cleanse, bomb & gas their populations just fine alone.
Syrian refugees - the largest group in Europe - are overwhelmingly fleeing Assad's violence and Putin's munitions.
Yes, Western powers chucked a few bombs in for good measure, but the brutal repression of popular insurrection against dictatorship is what refugees are fleeing.
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17 Jun
So, we hear on #r4today that a new report (unnamed) criticises the Home Office for not knowing how many undocumented immigrants are in the UK. By definition, nobody knows.

But, a couple of things about that...
Home Office doesn't have its own recent estimate, but there are several credible estimates out there. Mayor of London's research puts the figure at about 675,000. Pew Research Centre puts it at about 800,000 (but includes asylum seekers).

Either number is unacceptable. #r4today
Contrary to what hysteric coverage of Farige, etc. would have you think, vast majority of these people came here entirely legally. They entered UK on legitimate visa and for any number of reasons lost their status.

Our immigration laws systematically force people out of status.
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