🚨🚨 With your support & solidarity we made it! This petition now has 100k signatures, meaning it will be debated in Parliament!

Thank you to everyone who signed, shared in their networks, posted on social media, reported on it & reached out with offers of support.

I’ve been laid off by openDemocracy, along with a load of my amazing colleagues in the UK. Another bad day for good journalism in this country

If anyone needs an editor, reporter, barman, ageing centre forward or hype man hit me up

A man appeared in court today charged with attempting to murder an asylum seeker at a Home Office hotel, in an alleged far-right terror attack

Callum Parslow, 31, was remanded in custody ahead of a hearing at the Old Bailey on 26 April

In a piece for London Review of Books, IRR trustee Frances Webber addresses how racialised children & young people – migrant, refugee & British – are treated as fully responsible adults by police, prosecutors & courts, through the cases of Shamima Begum & Ibrahima Bah

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lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

We are supporting the urgent Gaza Families Reunited campaign - calling for Palestinians in the UK to be able to bring their families to safety 🧡

Read more ⬇️ scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/gaza-palestine…

NEW: Unseen footage reveals UK-funded French police are carrying out violent interceptions of small boats in the Channel

Lighthouse Reports The Observer Le Monde DER SPIEGEL find aggressive tactics include flooding, ramming & stabbing dinghies as UK mounts pressure to 'stop the boats'

New in The Border Chronicle🦂🔥Smoke and Lies
A new visual investigation by Lighthouse Reports Lighthouse Reports and partners La Verdad & El Paso Matters uncovers the truth about the deadly Ciudad Juárez migrant detention fire theborderchronicle.com/p/smoke-and-li…

We MUST open safe family reunion routes for British Palestinians to bring their loved ones to safety from the famine & destruction in Gaza!

This Gaza Families Reunited petition has a few weeks to reach 100k supporters, I know we have that💪

Please sign & share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

Revealed: Disputed medical terms used to explain dozens of deaths after police restraint in UK theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

All the more need for this to be done in writing and not over the phone, some of the calls have been genuine - one was made from a number that was not withheld and the lawyer called the HO back on it

Also - how have they got these phone numbers?

Charities are shocked at West Mids police’s decision not to bring charges over Henok’s death at a mental health facility, the BBC reports.

It cites our finding that 23 people in Govt asylum seeker housing are confirmed or suspected to have died by suicide between 2020 and 2024.

The number of refugees sleeping rough in the capital after leaving Home Office hotels increased by 234% in four months, new research from London Councils has found.

insidehousing.co.uk/news/number-of…

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Evidence has been mounting that carers who come to the UK on the health & care visa are being subjected to exploitation & fraud.

We can now reveal this is in large part due to a visa design that punishes workers for whistleblowing🧵

CW:references to rape
thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

Exclusive: The Home Office has been quietly rolling out a multi-million IT system that was supposed to 'automate' asylum, citizenship and visa cases

It's now causing chaos, with errors, bugs and delays leaving staff 'sobbing' while applicants suffer
inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

❗At least 8,565 people died on migration routes worldwide in 2023, making it the deadliest year on record, according to Missing Migrants Project.

These figures are a reminder that we must recommit to greater collective action to ensure safe migration for all.
iom.int/news/deadliest…