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#asylum

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joe•iuculano :mastodon:

« #Italy on Fri transferred 40 #migrants denied right to remain in the country to Italian-managed detention centres in #Albania — seemingly the 1st time an #EU member state relocated rejected #asylum seekers to a 3rd place that is neither their country of origin nor a transit one
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However, since their launch in October, legal challenges have restricted full use of the centres, with some migrants returned to Italy after courts refused to uphold their detention abroad»

euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04

Italy transfers 40 rejected asylum seekers to detention centres in Albania
euronews · Italy sends 40 rejected asylum seekers to Albania detention centresLegal experts and rights groups have raised alarm over the move, questioning its legality and accusing Italy of undermining asylum rights. #EuropeNews
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Kim Perales

“These legal orientation programs are often the ONLY way that immigrants held in detention can talk with a lawyer.”
-A Reichlin-Melnick

Trump & the oligarchs are pocketing millions from private detention facilities (prison camps). Denying asylum to undocumented immigrants by various nefarious means, guarantees the need for more facilities & everything that’s required to operate them.

A Twitter post from user @Tanvim discusses the termination of funding by the Department of Justice for legal programs that assist immigrants with rights training, legal education, and counsel in deportation cases. The image includes a formal termination notice from the DOJ dated April
#Immigrants#Detention#DHS
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Kim Perales

Labeling the Republican leaders who're responsible for these barbarous deportation efforts as Nazis is generous, a new term is needed to reflect their racist, AI-aided, diabolical mindset.

"To issue this memo the same week they cut the Legal Orientation Program that provides minimal assistance to detained who've to file asylum applications unrepresented shows how depraved those making these decisions are."
-L Toczylowski

SPOX Leavitt is speaking at a podium with the White House logo, flanked by a U.S. flag. The text above indicates a statement about foreign nationals in the U.S. needing to register with the government or face arrest and deportation.
A SM post by Reichlin-Melnick discusses a memo from the Acting Director of the Immigration Courts regarding the authority to deny asylum applications without a hearing. The memo's validity is questioned, as it appears that the Director may lack the legal authority to set precedent in this matter
#Deportations#Asylum#DueProcess
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Amnesty in Salisbury & South Wiltshire

Refugee report

Monthly report on this politically toxic topic

April 2025

The Government’s Border Security Asylum and Immigration Bill has now completed its report stage and will next go to the Lords.  While this is going on, an update on the numbers shows that the number of small boat arrivals this year so far has exceeded 6000, the highest yet.  Meanwhile the backlog of pending asylum cases has increased to 41,000 in December.

The PM has drawn together 40 nations for his Organised Immigration Crime summit last week.  A press release went without much comment, containing the usual statements about agreeing to enhance border security and dismantle the criminal networks.  One item which did emerge was an agreement with Serbia to exchange intelligence about what is now known as the Western Balkans route into Europe.

Following this event, some 136 organisations under the umbrella of Together with Refugees wrote to the Government, unhappy about the language used by the Prime Minister, which they described as “demonising.”  The PM had claimed: “There is little that strikes working people as more unfair than watching illegal migration drive down their wages, their terms and their conditions through illegal work in their community.”

New research from the European University has suggested that attitudes in Europe to irregular migration are more nuanced and varied than previously supposed.  This was from a survey which covered 20,000 people across Austria, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the UK designed to understand their preferences on policies regarding access to healthcare, social welfare and labour protections, as well as the obtainment of regular legal status or “regularisation” for irregular migrants. The results challenge the idea that public attitudes toward irregular migrants’ rights are simply “for” or “against”.  Instead, they found that variations in policy design matter – and when policies include both migration controls and protections for migrants, public support often increases.

Unusually, there is some emphasis this month about campaigning.  Refugee Week (third week in June) is this year under the theme of Community as a Superpower with its customary emphasis on small actions. The group might consider an action (s) which might include:

Following our action against denying asylum seekers the right to work pushing for a change in the law. Refugee Action have a petition to sign here and, for more information, you can Read the coalition’s report here. We could arrange our own petition using the Lift the Ban coalition’s resources.

  • Pressing for Salisbury to be a City of Sanctuary (Winchester and Swindon are)
  • A letter writing workshop for supporting asylum seekers (maybe using the Salisbury Ecohub)
  • A vigil for small boat arrivals (as we did a few years ago)
  • Safe Passage want us to write to our MPs about government  policy and the new bill

(They have a standard email, but this could be enhanced).

Also Refugee Action are offering speakers for local groups – they admit they would mostly be online, but they can make visits.

Finally, a recommended read is Labour’s Immigration Policy by Daniel Trilling (who many will remember gave a talk to us some years ago) in the London Review of Books for March.

Andrew Hemming

The ConversationEuropeans have more flexible views on how to respond to irregular migrants than policymakers think – new researchThere is a public preference for some policies that include a pathway to legal status.
#asylum#HomeOffice#immigration
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

#WhatsMissing: The "#AntiThiel - #Grant":

Sadly I'm not a #billionaire, cuz otherwise I would've done so and hired people to be able to do so.

  • Instead I'm just gonna continue helping a couple wherever I can…
#DoGoodAndInciteOthersToDoTheSame#USpol#AntiIntellectualism
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Jon PENNYCOOK

'Britain and other European countries can disrupt smuggling networks and raise the cost of doing business, although unfortunately they are likely to make cross-channel journeys more lethal in the process.'

economist.com/britain/2025/04/

Iranian refugee: “If you think the smugglers are bad people, I agree with you. It’s a long and unsafe journey, a dangerous journey. But do you think it’s possible to go to the British embassy in Iran and get a visa?”

Migrants try to board a smuggler's inflatable dinghy
The Economist · How to run a smuggling businessBy The Economist
#UK#immigration#asylum
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