I AM a Londoner who would like to send a message of thanks to the people of Glasgow who blocked Kenmuire Street in Pollokshields on Thursday to stop UK Border Agency officials and the Greater Glasgow police from forcibly removing two men. For over a decade the racist Tory party have demonised and vilified asylum-seekers, refugees and immigrants. The Tory “hostile environment” over the last 10 years has encouraged racism and led to the shameful treatment of the Windrush generation and their children. The xenophobic Home secretary Priti Patel insists on incarcerating asylum-seekers in Napier barracks where conditions are so bad they even prompted the former Tory immigration minister Caroline Nokes to condemn them as “ghettos”.
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Determined to make good on the nativist promise of Brexit, it has embraced anti-migrant authoritarianism.
By Maya Goodfellow
Ms. Goodfellow is a British academic who has written widely on immigration, borders and racism. She is the author of âHostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats.â
April 1, 2021
Credit.Illustration by The New York Times; photographs by Getty Images
LONDON â Last week, as Britain focused on its gradual emergence from lockdown, the home secretary, Priti Patel, laid out the governmentâs âNew Plan for Immigration.â
The details were deeply sinister. Only those coming through resettlement schemes, who amount to less than 1 percent of refugees globally, would be welcomed. Everybody else, forced to take life-threateningly dangerous journeys, would be branded âillegalâ and aggressively penalized. They would be blocked from key state support, given diminished family reunion rights and be permanently liable for remov
‘This should be out of the question’: MP calls on Priti Patel to stop Osime Brown’s deportation
The Liberal Democrat politician pointed out that Osime Brown is vulnerable, even at home surrounded by family
TRAUMATISED: Osime s mother has spoken to The Voice in the past about her son s ordeal
JAMIE STONE, Liberal Democrat MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, hosted a focus group earlier this week to discuss the deportation case of Osime Brown.
Osime Brown is a 21-year-old black autistic man with a range of special needs. In the past, his mother has said that if he is deported to Jamaica, he will die. He has not lived in the country since he was four years old.