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How Channel 4 News has shone a light on the issue of immigration and deportation over the last decade
Immigration, and our attitude to it, has rarely been out of the headlines, as these revelatory Channel 4 News reports by Simon Israel from the last decade show.
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UN Special Rapporteur on Racism criticises UK government over austerity and immigration
After two weeks in the UK, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Racism says she’s alarmed at the stark increase in hate crimes and incidents across the UK during the post-Brexit era.
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Vince McBean on Windrush: ‘Politicians look at immigration as way of getting votes’
Stephen Doughty, a Labour member of the Home Affairs Commitee, Vince McBean, chairman of the West Indian Association of Service Personnel, and Sally Daghlian, CEO of Praxis, a charity that works with vulnerable migrants, discuss the Windrush controversy.
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Labour demands government changes ‘cruel’ immigration policy
The Windrush scandal dominated proceedings in Westminster today, with Home Secretary Amber Rudd coming under more pressure to resign. Jeremy Corbyn demanded the government rethink what he called its “cruel” immigration policy and get rid of “bogus” targets. Ms Rudd told MPs she bitterly regretted her failure to grasp the scale of the scandal sooner.…
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Diane Abbott MP: ‘Entire immigration department not fit for purpose’
The High Commissioner for Barbados, Guy Hewitt, who met Home Secretary Amber Rudd and immigration staff, Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, and Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng discuss the Windrush controversy.
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Windrush mother blames immigration problems for son’s death
The mother of a Windrush child has called on Theresa May to reflect on what she is doing to the country after her 58-year-old son was found dead last month.
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Immigration Minister apologises for ‘terrible mistakes’ over Windrush ‘deportations’
The government has admitted the way it has treated people who came to the UK from the Caribbean as children before 1973 was a mistake and apologised. There were angry exchanges in parliament as the Home Secretary Amber Rudd admitted that immigration policy had been put before the treatment of people.
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Sharp drop in EU net migration
A sharp drop in EU immigration has been revealed in net migration figures published today. It may be good news for the Prime Minister’s pledge to bring down net migration to the hundreds of thousands. But many argue there is a heavy price being paid for tightening immigration controls: unfilled positions in the care sector…
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Dr Sarah Wollaston: ‘Public health risks to data sharing for immigration purposes’
An agreement between the NHS and the Home Office to share patients’ addresses for immigration enforcement purposes should be ended immediately, according to the chair of the Commons health committee, the MP Dr Sarah Wollaston. She has written to the head of NHS Digital, warning that the arrangement will not only undermine confidence in patient…
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Trump’s hardline immigration policies begin to take effect despite latest Capitol Hill stalemate
“The Wall is The Wall” and Mexico will pay for it. Remember the line? Donald Trump repeated it this morning, pushing back against his chief of staff John Kelly, who’d suggested the President’s position has ‘evolved’. Mixed messages aside, that wall, cuts to legal immigration and ‘extreme vetting’ of those arriving, are changing lives across…
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Trump accused of racism over alleged immigration remarks
“Hate-filled, vile and racist” – that’s how President Trump’s comments on immigration have been described by a leading Democratic Senator who heard him refer to Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as “shitholes”. It’s not just Democrats either. House Speaker Paul Ryan described the remarks as “very unfortunate, unhelpful.” From President Trump himself, there has…
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UK families affected by immigration laws campaign
As one future royal starts the process of becoming a British citizen, other families in this country who have loved-ones from overseas came together today to sing carols and campaign against rules which they say are keeping parents and children apart at Christmas and are stacked against those on the lowest incomes.
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Immigration figures fall since Brexit
Net migration to the UK fell by a third in the year after the Brexit vote. That’s over 100,000 fewer migrants arriving between June 2016 and June 2017. The Office for National Statistics said those coming to Britain to look for work, especially EU citizens, was down by 43 per cent. It added that it…
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Trump calls for tougher immigration controls after New York attack
President Trump has called for tougher immigration controls after the deadly New York truck attack, describing the suspect as an “animal” and calling on Congress to shut down the immigration lottery scheme. New York police say the truck driver had been planning the attack for weeks and did it “in the name of IS”. Eight…
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Zoltan Kovacs: ‘Migration uncontrolled and unstoppable’
Hungary has, for years, been criticised in the west for its approach to immigration. Its Prime Minister Viktor Orban said central Europe is the continent’s last “migrant-free zone” and that Europe needs to be “safe, civic, Christian and free”. The Hungarian Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Zoltan Kovacs. is asked why he doesn’t like…
