Thread by @WindrushLives

🚨This Sunday, 1pm, Downing Street.🚨#NationalityAndBordersBill #STOPNABB

🧵In case you need convincing or reminding - here's why we need to block this bill: [1/15]

This is a great summary by @_BvdM on Clause 9. To reiterate, the power to strip citizenship in some cases already exists; it is the notice provision that is new. But it IS a lurch into (more) authoritarianism. And guess who it will target? newstatesman.com/politics/2021/… [2/15]

I have a more specific concern about the potential use of Clause 9 against ex-prisoners - a similarly worded clause in Borders Act 2007 is used to deport Black and brown ex-prisoners who hold ILR. (@followMFJ do excellent work to stop charters)

https://twitter.com/WindrushLives/status/1461231462091472897?s=20

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The bill, and Clause 9 in particular, is a piece of a tapestry of proposed law that will steadily erode the civil liberties of Britons.

This is a concerted attack on your rights, especially if you are Black, brown or racialised. [4/15]

https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1470665310818689026?s=20

Then there are the human rights and dignity of non-Britons. This piece of trash-masquerading-as-legislation will take a hammer and chisel to an international refugee protection system that is already at breaking point. [5/15] refugee-action.org.uk/about/facts-ab…

Priti's straw man - a "migrant" jumping the queue, crossing the channel in a dinghy by *choice*, for economic advantage - slips into media + right wing rhetoric of people coming here to steal benefits/jobs.

They are refugees. This is the reality👇🏽 [6/15]
freemovement.org.uk/priti-patel-bo…

And how do we know that @ukhomeoffice rhetoric - that the Bill will in fact abolish risky crossings, shut down criminal human-trafficking operations, and protect refugees, is predicated on lies? @ZoeJardiniere will take you through it: [7/15]

https://twitter.com/ZoeJardiniere/status/1438837716834295813?s=20

The bill contains an absolutely repulsive proposal to make borders agents immune from prosecution if they kill people in the course of pushback ops:

https://twitter.com/ColinYeo1/status/1447844804788989954?s=20

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In this great summary from @BIDdetention, I'd like to draw your attention to point 3 on immigration detention. [9/15] biduk.org/articles/8-rea…

There is a particular sickness in trying to brand these proposals as intended for the protection of victims of modern slavery. More on the expansion of immigration detention and its conflation with modern slavery in this excellent policy brief: [10/15] labourexploitation.org/publications/d…

Finally, the Windrush perspective. We know from painful experience that immigration law and unchecked Home Office power can and will be weaponised for political ends. That is the Windrush scandal - I summarise it in the first few pars here: [11/15] goodlawproject.org/news/windrush-…

In the NABB provisions targeting Britons, the Home Office is asking for *more* open-ended powers.

How do you think this is going to end? Who do you think is going to suffer as a direct consequence of Clause 9? [12/15]

Windrush victims are alarmed by this law. It is everything govt has supposedly "learned lessons" not to do, on an even bigger scale. Priti Patel is nowhere near cleaning up the wreckage of the Windrush scandal. Now she wants more power, to do more damage. [13/15]

Windrush victims also know that govt is pandering to an anti-refugee, anti-migrant base in the border clauses. A base born of racism and xenophobia.

Fan those flames enough, and the resultant fire will consume Britons of minority ethnic and racialised groups. [14/15]

If you are in London and able, we ask that you come to Downing St on Sunday and take a stand against this deplorable bill, with us and @WritersofColour @SikhCouncilUK @MABOnline1 @IRR_News, amongst many others. [15/15] #BlackLivesMatter