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Detention Action
@DetentionAction
Human rights charity on the frontline of immigration detention in the UK, providing direct support and campaigning for change I & T: @detention_action
Apr 14, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
🧵1/12 #BorisJohnson & #PritiPatel will today announce their plans to send people seeking asylum in the UK to #offshoredetention camps in #Rwanda, to try & deter #refugees from seeking protection in the UK. Cruelty is the point of this policy. Here's why this will fail... 2/12 Johnson & Patel were inspired by Australia's brutal & widely condemned offshore detention camps on Nauru & Papua New Guinea. Conditions for 3,127 people in those camps were deliberately dangerous & inhumane & led to suicides, avoidable deaths & abuse of children by guards.
Aug 10, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NEWS: We've been taking referrals for the #Jamaica50 mass deportation for the past few days. People who have been in the UK for 20 or 30 + years or most of their lives. People who came to the UK as toddlers, young children or teenagers & have no links to Jamaica... 2/ Most have a non-violent, drugs-related or one-off conviction. Nearly all have been living in the community for several years and in most cases raising their children and playing an active and important role in their lives. As with other flights the @ukhomeoffice is trying to
Aug 6, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
1/ 🚨 CALL TO ACTION - @pritipatel is chartering another mass expulsion flight to Jamaica next Wednesday to deport up to 50 people incl many who have grown up in the UK (from nursery upwards). We are supporting several affected people who are in detention independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n… 2/ In December 2020 the Jamaican Government @AndrewHolnessJM secured an agreement with @BorisJohnson which prevented those who have been in the UK since they were under 12yo from being deported.

We are calling on both Governments to hold this line.
theguardian.com/politics/2020/…