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May 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
So many specialists have been warning about this from the start and every time we have been told to be quiet or "what are the alternatives". The alternatives were always there if the government would have just invested in asylum mechanisms. #r4today 1/
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-613110…
Instead though they have continued to fail to properly resource the existing mechanisms, mechanisms which have been shown to work, and relied on outsourcing protection to the public. Yeah, because that wasn't going to always create safeguarding risks like these. 2/
The benefit of investing in those mechanisms, which bring together local authorities, NGOS and experienced specialists is that they are then there to help everyone, so we can reduce use of hotels for Afghan refugees though. 3/
Instead though we have seen the government spend tens of millions on yet more plans to prevent people seeking asylum in the UK. What is needed is a complete rethink of the UK system. Money invested in local communities, rather than deterrents, and protection made the priority. 4/

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I see @thetimes is reporting Home Office press releases as fact again, even when both their own reporting and a quick Google search would have shown that unaccompanied refugee children are not treated anything like UK children in care. 1/ ImageImageImageImage
No experts interviewed in this piece, just uncritically letting the @ukhomeoffice knowingly lie. It wouldn't have taken much to contact and organisation which actually knows something about this, but that wouldn't fit the government line would it. 2/
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Apr 29
Please let this be true, but it still doesn't solve the underlying issues. Frontex needs totally taking apart. Some things can be "fixed", but sometimes the rot is too deep and too institutionalised. That's the case with Frontex
Multiple investigations have found that Frontex has been involved in numerous violations of human rights and refugee law, including having one of their own translators forced to Turkey as part of "pushbacks" because Greek officials thought he was seeking asylum.
This for example is just the most recent example of Frontex's violations of international law. These aren't isolated cases. They have been going on for years and the EU as an entity is well aware of them and has zero intention of doing anything about it.

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Apr 23
One of the worst arguments which bigots of all stripes use is "you aren't part of X community so you have no stake in this debate". Yes we do. We all have a stake when people are marginalised, demonised and discriminated against. Race, religion, sexuality, we are all human. 1/
Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia etc etc. We all have a stake in combating it. When someone says "you don't have a stake stay out of it" what they are saying is "we want to keep this group marginalised". 2/
The follow on from this is the argument of "show me where they/I have said X bigoted thing?". Again, the actual bigotry is irrelevant, the methods remain the same. The refuse to look at context. Unless you show that someone has used a direct slur they dismiss criticism. 3/
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Yes you can say there are bigger things going on in the world than #Partygate, of course there are, but every time Johnson and his fawning acolytes tell people to "move on" what many hear is "it doesn't matter what you went through", and that is big enough for a lot of people.
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