🚨TODAY, MPs are voting on the Nationality & Borders Bill - also rightly known as the #AntiRefugeeBill - after peers made changes to it in the House of Lords.
👇🏽Here are some of the key changes MPs will consider and how we get them to scrap the #AntiRefugeeBill:
Lords voted ❌ to “offshore” camps for people seeking refuge here. This would mean deportation and indefinite detention in remote, hidden camps for almost all refugees.
⚠️ Today MPs could vote offshore asylum camps back in. #StopNABB
Lords voted ❌ to criminalising refugees for simply *arriving* in the UK. Every refugee who reaches us would, under this law, be subject to up to 4 years in prison.
⚠️ Today, MPs could vote criminalisation of refugees back in. #StopNABB
Lords voted ❌ to “differentiated treatment” - this would mean our govt stripping away most refugees' rights.
It would deny refugees family reunification, permanent settlement & support.
⚠️ Today, MPs could vote codified discrimination against refugees back into the Bill.
Lords voted ❌ to our Home Secretary having the power to strip British nationals of citizenship without informing them of the fact.
This is the latest in a long line of govt citizenship stripping powers.
⚠️ Today, MPs could vote this power back into the Bill. #StopNABB
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2/ The deadline on the EU Settled Status scheme is a cliff edge. Overnight, tens of thousands of people could be criminalised just for living their lives and will face the full horrors of the hostile environment. #ScrapTheDeadline
3/ People who are already vulnerable are at highest risk of getting left out. The risks are well documented. E.g. This paper by @MigObs explains how victims of abuse and exploitation, and people who are isolated are at highest risk: migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/repo…
The Court of Appeal confirms that the Government’s Right to Rent scheme, which forces landlords to carry out immigration checks, causes racial discrimination.
But judges stopped short of declaring it unlawful. So where do we go from here? [Thread]
[2/5] The Court of Appeal found, like the High Court last year, that the scheme increases racial discrimination in the rental market.
It takes BME people and migrants twice as long to find a home to rent as a white person with a British passport.
[3/5] That’s because Right to Rent turns landlords into border guards and incentivises discrimination.
Huge fines for renting a home to someone without the right papers, but virtual impunity for quietly passing over people of colour + migrants in favour of white British people.
1, sign and share this petition calling for justice for the Windrush generation, including an end to all charter flight deportations to Jamaica and other Commonwealth countries @BARACUK@BameForchange.org/p/stop-all-cha…
2, add your name to this petition, calling for the release of the Windrush Lessons Learned Review and demanding all charter flights are grounded you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop…
The names of the 39 people who died in the back of a lorry in Essex a few weeks ago have been released. 39 people who were loved and will be missed by family and friends. They are more than a number. We remember them here:
1. On this most solemn #EdBallsDay, we thought we'd take you through 50 years of the history behind #windrush & #hostileenvironment as seen through our eyes.
2. In 1967 JCWI was founded in the Dominion theatre Southall by 240 reps from community and anti-racist groups.
3. 1968, in the wake of Rivers of Blood, we started work defending the rights of Commonwealth nationals who had arrived in the #windrush era from attempts to remove them.