DEPORTATION ACTION WEEK UPDATE

 The Week of Action Against the Deportation Machine kicked off on Monday (1st) with two protests outside London immigration reporting centres.

No Borders London, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees and Stop Deportation, first hit Communications House on Old Street before moving on to Becket House at London Bridge.

The reporting centres are where most asylum seekers are forced to check in on a regular basis, sometimes daily. Many have disappeared from these centres without warning. The centres are equipped with short-term holding facilities, where people are detained in shocking conditions before being removed to detention centres.

Yesterday, the National Coalition of Stop Deportation Campaigns (NCADC) launched an online campaign taking aim at booking agents Carlson Wagonlit and British Airways, both leading profiteers in the deportation machine. NCADC have called out for people to bombard the companies with emails and phone calls denouncing them for their complicity in suffering and abuse. See ncadc.org.uk for details on where to direct your complaints.

Brighton migrant rights activists were celebrating on Wednesday after chronic migrant abusers G4S backed out of a Brighton job fair following protests from migrant rights groups and Green MP Caroline Lucas.

The week will climax with a mass demo in Parliament Square, 2pm, on Saturday.

 

*See www.stopdeportation.net www.london.noborders.org.uk www.ncadc.org.uk