Gaza latest.
1.5 million people could be pushed out of Rafah:
timesofisrael.com/idf-plans-expa…

From the Israeli press:
haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…

A completely misleading headline.
They won't 'get asylum.'
They will be able to make an application for asylum.

Is it acceptable for a UK government department to feature the Conservative Party's election campaign on its Twitter/X profile?

The UK's cruel and incompetent government must be very disappointed.
These refugee arrests were designed to grab the headlines as the country goes to the polls.
But none of the right-wing newspapers are leading with this story this morning.

Yesterday and today in Ghent's Old Fish Market, EU interior ministers are meeting to discuss the 'operationalisation' of the #MigrationPact

That 'operationalisation' means more detention, fewer legal safeguards, and increased surveillance.

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Statewatch Will you please clearly and forcefully call out the role of UNHCR and IOM in promoting this anti-asylum pact?

'There is simply nowhere left to go in Gaza.'
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

How do you people sleep at night? Our time on earth is short. Is this what you want to be remembered for - making pornography of despair videos for the sickos who will lap it up? What wasted lives you must lead.

Gaza has raised important questions about the humanitarian narrative spun by the US State Department and its bureau for refugee and migration issues;
globaldispatches.org/p/the-performa…

This floating Gaza pier is humanitarianism for show, not impact.

globaldispatches.org/p/the-performa…

To be honest, I'm getting bored of stories about the Darien Gap.
There are many other migration routes to be investigated.

'The going rate.'
The flip kind of comment we have come to expect from the UK's border fetishists.

Do the Home Office genuinely believe the majority of the public want to see this? People being woken up and marched out of their houses in their pyjamas, forced into vans and taken to detention. I think this is likely to have the opposite of the intended effect.

'Be careful out there.'
Do me a favour.
This whole policy is based on violence and a violation of the principles of international refugee protection.

'The Home Office has released a video of detainees being rounded up for deportation. Whatever happened to the UK being a society that could afford dignity to everyone; even those we don’t want to stay? In this new UK, refugees are just torture porn.'
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

The Civil Service Union FDA has just applied for a judicial review of the Rwanda scheme, due to it compelling civil servants to break international law and the civil service code.

They accuse the Government of acting in a 'cowardly, reckless way' which endangers their members.

UK latest.
The bloody Daily Mail is loving every bit of it:
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Today's good news story (and there are not many of them in the UK these days).

What kind of people will be queueing up to force refugees onto planes and to subdue them during a 9-hour flight from the UK to Rwanda?
Brutality is guaranteed.