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#asylum

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There seem to be a great many people who believe anything that views migrants as bad.

This ban appears to suggest that these purchases are within reality when of course they are not.

Those who think migrants don't deserve food, let alone a hearing will interpret this as #migrants are rolling in £s. The #government cannot be ignorant of that fact.

People in a situation that has led to receiving appro. £10-£50 p.w. can't afford basics

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I've just written to my MP saying how horrified I am about all the anti-immigrant rhetoric currently coming from Labour, the Tories, and Reform.

My MP is a Lib Dem, so hopefully my email will fall on fertile ground, but I think it's important to let MPs know that not everyone is a racist.

The Court of Appeal has overturned the ruling that would have forced asylum seekers out of the Bell Hotel in Epping.

They can stay for now — but the trial in October will decide whether councils nationwide can block hotels on planning grounds. This is about system failure, not scapegoating.

#Asylum #Epping #BellHotel #UKPolitics
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Vox Political · The lies that smashed the unions and destroyed our coal industryBy Mike Sivier
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In reaching her decision, Judge Cobb took particular note of the aggressive evolution of the #Trump administration’s #immigration policy in recent months.

She wrote that in a race to meet quotas — as high as 3,000 immigration arrests per day — the administration had resorted to staking out #courthouses, targeting people pursuing #asylum claims & other pathways to remain in the country legally.

What to know after the US deports more migrants to Africa

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Rwanda has become the third African nation to receive deportees from the…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Africa #APTopNews #Asylum #Crime #DonaldTrump #Eswatini #Generalnews #Immigration #KilmarAbregoGarcia #MswatiIII #NicholasOpio #Politics #rwanda #SouthSudan #U.S.DepartmentofHomelandSecurity #Uganda #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesgovernment #World #Worldnews #YolandeMakolo
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Someone needs to go and show all the flag-waving Farage-worshipping gammons causing a scene outside of UK hotels housing asylum seekers this video:

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All about how your glorious leader's plan "Brexit" actually has caused MORE asylum seekers in the UK.

And yet you come for the asylum seekers and not the charlatan at the top who is spinning poor policy, lies and fear.

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NebulaTLDR News UK — Did Brexit Create the UK’s Asylum Crisis?In this video, we’ll explain the UK’s asylum crisis, and how Brexit might have worsened it.

→ Drownings and Deterrence in the Rio Grande
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“In 2021, the state of #Texas launched a multi-billion dollar initiative to stop #asylum seekers from stepping foot in the #US, called #OperationLoneStar, erecting hundreds of miles of razor wire, floating buoys and other barriers. Meanwhile in #Mexico, the number of troops on its northern #border doubled by 2022.”

“We found at least 1,107 #people drowned crossing the #RioGrande between Texas and Mexico from 2017 to 2023 […]”

Lighthouse ReportsDrownings and Deterrence in the Rio GrandeMore women and children are drowning trying to reach the US as Texas and Mexico militarize the border. Record requests reveal the soaring death toll in the Rio Grande amid official undercounts.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers say he wants to seek #asylum in the #US

#KilmarAbregoGarcia, who has become the face of the #Trump admin’s #immigration agenda, wants to seek asylum in the US, his lawyers told a federal judge Wednesday.

Garcia, 30, was detained Mon in Baltimore by #ICE after leaving a Tennessee jail on Fri. The Trump admin said it intends to deport him to the African country of #Uganda.

#law #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
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Jennifer Vasquez Sura, front left, wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, attends a protest rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, to support Kilmar Abrego Garcia. (AP Photo/KT Kanazawich)
AP News · Kilmar Abrego Garcia seeks US asylum after being detained again by ICEBy Michael Kunzelman