At least three people who visited Lunar House earlier today for a reporting visit have been detained and told they will be removed to Rwanda.

One of the men is from Sudan, where a violent conflict is raging, driving millions to flee.

Re - The Home Office's surprise plan to start rounding up people for #Rwanda deportation from Monday.

The powerful throw a crisis in our path to destablise us - to weaken us.

Though it's really hard, we need to be grounded in our approach

Three things we can do.

🧵 1. The Illegal Migration Act prohibits any person arriving illegally after 7 March 2023 from being granted asylum or legal status. One of three things can happen to them: (a) be removed to a third country, (b) voluntarily depart to their own country or (c) stay in the UK with…

This is a brutal, broad daylight, state-sanctioned trafficking of people seeking refuge by a government that is hell-bent on legislating illegality into law.

bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-p…

Interested in the legal processes & criminalisation of those arriving in small boats? Follow Vicky Taylor
6 minute plea hearings for non native speakers seeking asylum can't be right... how much justice is in that procedure?
Read her report here 👇
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For 5 years, Israel deported asylum seekers to Rwanda. When they stopped the scheme in 2018, it was found to be illegal, ineffective, and deeply damaging to the most vulnerable.

Despite knowing this, Sunak is doing the exact same thing today. We should all be ashamed we're here.

Follow this thread for a fact-checked watch-along of prime minister Rishi Sunak's press conference on the Rwanda scheme

I'll be there in spirit!

The criminalisation of supposed 'smugglers' in Europe really leads to absurd political trials. #Homayoun has endured 575 days in Greek prison, waiting for his appeal trial. What a farce.

#FreeHomayoun !!!

My father is to spend 18 years in prison because he was forced to take the wheel of the car transporting People on the Move - or die in the forest. Greece wrongly condemned him as a 'smuggler'. His 'crime'? The search for safety. Sea-Eye
#FreeHomayoun #safemigration

Looking forward to presenting at this next week! Thanks Monish Bhatia for the invite

St Peter’s Square. A stones throw from the precise spot a Refugee made homeless by the asylum system was stamped on by police.

Read our colleague AFili's powerful blog post Border Criminologies today on the processes and research experiences that lead to the landscapes of detention database: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimino…

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🚨New open source database launched today by Border Criminologies Mobile Info Team Border Violence Monitoring Network unveils systemic abuses in Greek reception and detention centres.

Detention landscapes pools evidence to show the scale of rights violations. For more⤵️
detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/

BREAKING: The House of Commons votes by 320 to 246 to overturn an amendment which would have stopped victims of modern slavery from being deported to Rwanda

🚩We condemn the horrific silence by authorities who deliberately refuse to answer our questions regarding the outcome of distress situations at sea and who also refuse to provide answers to families in their search to find the truth.

alarmphone.org/en/2024/04/14/…

In the UK, agricultural and care workers reported incidents of debt bondage and being misled about the conditions attached to their visa to researchers.

Immigration fears prevented many from reporting exploitation to authorities, they said.
infomigrants.net/en/post/56248/…

In his #SundayMorning program, Trevor Phillips excitedly tells the UK Health Secreatry, '...we need to get our cameras ready' (for the deporation of asylum seekers to Rwanda).

📣 FREE TRAINING, 18 APRIL: Age Assessment & Age Disputes in Criminal Cases 📣

Aimed at CPS, defence & community care Kent-based solicitors, speakers will use research to present solutions for age disputed children in the justice system.

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NEWS: The Court of Appeal has quashed our Somali refugee client’s conviction for possessing a false ID document because her former criminal defence representatives failed to advise her about the ‘refugee defence’ under s31 Immigration and Asylum Act 1999: bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/…

This is a useful piece in Border Criminologies by Irina Fehr and Jill Alpes on the [*exceptionally* limited!] legal avenues for pushing back against the EU's violent #pushback regime:

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimino… #PushbackRegime #Borderviolence 🧵1/5