Right to Remain
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Boosting our community's right to remain in the UK with dignity & humanity. Also @right-to-remain.bsky.social #TheseWallsMustFall #NoOneIsIllegal
Joined October 2009
🚨ACTION ALERT 🚨. We are calling on the Home Office to immediately suspend all in-person immigration reporting and all other appointments, on account of the overwhelming fear of violent racist attacks in our communities.
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Amber Rudd has resigned as Home Secretary, but the the Home Office's toxic immigration policies remain in place. We must continue to fight for an end to the government's 'hostile environment', which has brought immigration control into almost every area of public & private life.
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For 18 months, we've been doing a lot of research, talking to users and potential users, designing, writing, redesigning, rewriting. Today, we're very excited to present the new look Right to Remain Toolkit!. Find out what's changed (& what hasn't) here:.
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We're on our way to the #Stansted15 sentencing solidarity demo in Chelmsford this morning, thinking of those brave human rights defenders and all those facing the injustice and cruelty of charter flight deportations.
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Solidarity. United against racism, inequality, poverty. #EndAusterityNow #NoOneIsIllegal
http://t.co/rmmnEFS49v.
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Brilliant news from Ireland, as they announce that those seeking asylum will have unrestricted #RightToWork. This follows a court case which ruled the country’s ban on work unconstitutional, and a campaign against the very limited proposals that were then introduced. #EndDP
Wow! This amazing result was only made possible by the tenacity and creativity of the asylum seeker-led campaign, who refused to accept the conditions and half-measures they were offered to them. Bravo @masi_asylum! . #EndDirectProvision #RightToWork.
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"If he dies, he dies" Dehumanisation at its most extreme. People detained are humans, with families, friends, communities #BBCPanorama.
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An brave act of civil disobedience from a Swedish student has stopped the deportation of a man to Afghanistan. When an angry passenger, who appears to be English, tries to seize her phone, she tells him: “What is more important, a life, or your time?"
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Wow, thank you @LosCampesinos! Now more than ever, refugees and migrants need solidarity. This will help people to survive the government's attacks, and will help us to fight for our rights and get rid of this racist hostile environment ✊🏿 #NoOneIsIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall.
We’ve just donated £2,000 to @Right_to_Remain challenging injustice in the asylum and immigration system in the UK. Please support if you are able
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We've broken down the #Rwanda judgement that was handed down today, which is a clear continuation of the UK’s hostile environment towards migrants. Importantly - it's not over. The decision(s) will likely be appealed in January. 1/10.
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Good news - Home Office has now announced that for the next three months, people will not be asked to leave their asylum accommodation if appeal rights exhausted or granted status. Our updates blog has been updated with this: With thanks to @jonfeatonby.
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The Home Office is making £24m a year (around £500,000 a week) on charges for children to register for British citizenship. Parents are skipping meals so as to afford the £1000+ application fee, with the money not refunded if the application is refused.
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📢LEGAL UPDATE - the Rwanda Act and Treaty📢. In response to the Guardian article today announcing the Home Office plan to start detaining people for the Rwanda flight, we've just published this update. We will add more info as we find out more. ⬇️⬇️⬇️.
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🔥ICYMI - Yesterday, hundreds of people came out in Peckham, London, and surrounded the coach that was scheduled to take people to the asylum barge in Dorset. The coach left empty.🔥 . (Image from @ukblm tweet yesterday)
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Over 100 people in #YarlsWood immigration detention centre are on strike & have "ceased to participate in detention; we will not eat, use their facilities or work for them.". Here are 4 actions you can take TODAY to support them & their demand for freedom:
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We are very excited to announce the launch of brand new videos to help people understand the UK asylum process!. Based on Right to Remain Toolkit, translations by @RefugeeInfoBus & stunning animation by Sara Khayat, the videos are available in 6 languages.
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'Asylum seekers are our neighbours, not political pawns for failing politicians. If MPs cannot resist the Rwanda plan, activists will.' . Thank you to @OwenJones84 for talking to us. Solidarity to everyone in this migration justice movement ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿.
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We are very proud to launch our brand new online resource: the young asylum guide!.
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🚨We are inviting all of you to join in a mass virtual action - #NotInOurName - on Monday 4th September at noon to show our opposition to the Illegal Migration Act. This action is organised by @JCWI_UK and other organisations who are coordinating an open letter against the Act.
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Right to Remain is delighted to announce that Eiri Ohtani will be joining the organisation as our new Director. @EiriOhtani has over twenty years experience in the migration sector, covering a wide-range of roles.
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Excellent news that a successful legal challenge has forced the Home Office to withdraw its asylum accommodation evictions policy.
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🚨Immigration raids: your rights, and what to do🚨. We have put together this simple blog against the backdrop of an increasingly violent and Hostile Environment towards migrants in the UK. Please share widely.
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Some good news for your Bank Holiday Monday🎉. The Home Office's No Recourse to Public Funds (NPRF) policy has been found unlawful again!. Find out more about what this means in our blog ⬇️.
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🚨Emergency legal update - What we know about the Rwanda Act and Treaty so far🚨. It's been reported by the press that the Home Office starts a surprise 2-week operation to detain people for the Rwanda flight on 29 April. Read our Rwanda plan update. ⬇️.
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On Thursday Islington became the first London council to pass a #TheseWallsMustFall motion against immigration #detention!. Islington is now the fourth council in the UK to pass such a motion, following Manchester, Cambridge, and Brighton & Hove.
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Civil servants are suing the govt for putting them in a compromising situation by passing the Rwanda Act: either break the new 'law', or break their duty under the Civil Service Code. This throws a spanner in the works! 🔧💥✊.
🚨✈️EXC: Rwanda plan could be delayed as civil servants sue Government over law breach
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Message from @wallsmustfall Organiser: 'We are outside the immigration reporting centre in Manchester. The press are here and asking migrants questions about their immigration histories. We advise you not to give your details, unless you are 100% sure it is safe to do so.’.
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On this International Migrants Day, we dream of a world where everyone has the right to remain where they want to be – . not because they are “deserving”, . not because they are “hard working”, (cont. ). #MigrantsDay
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🔥Urgent #Liverpool & #Manchester Solidarity Actions🔥. Say NO to #detention and the #Rwanda plan!. Today, the government started a "Rwanda Operation". The operation will target people attending reporting centres across the country, as well as through raids on our community.
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We stopped the Rwanda plan, for now. But so many people are still locked up in detention centres. Free them now!
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🚨NEW blog on IMMIGRATION RAIDS🚨 as we navigate Rwanda confusion:. ⚡️What's a raid?.⚡️What're your RIGHTS in a raid.⚡️What to do if you SEE a raid.⚡️Key groups . Stay informed, stay vigilant, stand together. Thank you @AntiRaids @migrants_rights ✊.
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A fantastic write-up of a protest led by asylum seekers in London. “I always heard that this country respects human rights. But when I came here I saw that I am not considered as a human being […] I am not somebody who will stay silent.” ✊🏾.
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Today, Manchester City Council became the first local authority in Britain to pass a motion condemning immigration detention. #TheseWallsMustFall #unlocked17
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We wake today with a heavy heart. We knew this could happen. We knew this would happen. And we know the government's plans will only make this more likely. We wake, we gently lift our hearts up, to carry on. Because we all deserve to live with and in love, dignity and hope.
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"We got tired of it and we started talking . it was hard but we managed to get it done and we organised ourselves". An inspiring read ahead of the long weekend: in Ireland, refugees are taking on the system. @masi_asylum. #asylum #powertothepeople.
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“The Prime Minister has condemned Trump’s family separation policy, but this Government’s hostile environment separates parents from their children everyday.” - Shadow immigration minister @Afzal4Gorton
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Today, people power in #Edinburgh successfully pushed back against immigration enforcement that tried to snatch people away from their community. Organising matters, solidarity matters and showing up matters. Let's do more of this to protect everyone. #TheseWallsMustFall.
When we say community power is the ultimate power, we meant it and this is another example of the power that comes with unity and solidarity. Amazing work& great achievements people well done 👏
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URGENT RWANDA NOTICE 🚨 . We have received reports that the Home Office is calling people to offer ‘voluntary departure’ to Rwanda. - You DO NOT have to say yes. - DO NOT respond until you have legal advice. If you do get a call, we recommend the following:
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Such a relief to see some justice done today. We are thinking of the #stansted15 today - and all those affected by the UK's cruel, racist and inhumane immigration system.
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100 protesters blockaded a street in Bristol for 7 hours last night, in an attempt to stop immigration enforcement officers leaving the area with one of their neighbours. Read @TheBristolCable's full account of this "spontaneous show of dissent".
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🚨 STAYING SAFE: NEW GUIDE 🚨. Several organisations worked together to produce this guide, "Staying Safe Amidst Far Right Violence". Please circulate widely.
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‘We will always fight for our community’s right to seek safety and a better life’ – joint civil society statement on the passage of the Illegal Migration Act. Migration is life. No one is illegal. These walls must fall.
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Good morning to everyone, especially to people who are being affected by the #Rwanda plan. We are sending you solidarity. Also good morning to everyone who has been mobilising and organising to protect refugee/migrant communities. And thank you. #MigrationIsLife
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The Right to Remain Toolkit is a plain language rights guide that helps people to navigate the increasingly complex and hostile asylum and immigration system in the UK. Available online and, in January, an updated book.
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Are you at #HackneyHalf in #London today? . A big shout out to @dukdukpaint (on Insta) for scattering our message of #NoOneIsIllegal across the area today! . If you see one and believe in a beautiful world where everyone is safe, take a photo in solidarity and tag us!
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A reminder that the Hostile Environment isn't inevitable. It isn't needed, wanted, and it cannot operate if people refuse to be part of it.
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We have to come together in solidarity and action. The Inhumane Migration Act is #NotInOurName. Migration is life. No one is illegal. These walls must fall.
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Brilliant to see a city council prepared to defy government rules and offer help to ALL rough sleepers - regardless of 'entitlement' or immigration status. Bravo @mayor_anderson and the people of Liverpool! .
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Last year, pilots stopped 222 deportations of people seeking asylum from Germany. Pilots in Israel announced they would not help their government with a deportation policy. And major airlines in the US have announced they would not deport children separated from their parents.
An brave act of civil disobedience from a Swedish student has stopped the deportation of a man to Afghanistan. When an angry passenger, who appears to be English, tries to seize her phone, she tells him: “What is more important, a life, or your time?"
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Today is #InternationalMigrantsDay!. From #Windrush, to the #HostileEnvironment, to the hunger strikes in #YarlsWood, and the #Stansted15 conviction - this year has witnessed new levels of oppression and resistance. Let us stand together!.#MigrationIsLife
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The #Stansted15 will be appealing the guilty verdict. Help them fund the trial related costs:
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Great news for the women who were detained - they are now all going to be free! . Now, it's time to release *EVERYONE* who has been detained under the Rwanda Plan from immigration detention centres. #FreeRwandaDetainees
🚨BREAKING. All women who were detained with Notices of Intent for Rwanda have now been granted bail and will be RELEASED from detention. Whilst we are extremely pleased this has happened, it is shameful and cruel that it has taken so long. #FreeRwandaDetainees
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#MigrationIsLife.#NoOneIsIllegal.#TheseWallsMustFall. Good morning to all of you from Right to Remain.
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Tomorrow, 15 people will stand trial for grounding a deportation charter flight. They are charged with a terrorism-related offence and face life imprisonment. Find out more, and how you can support then:.#Stansted15.
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Today is a grim day. We know there is much fear and confusion about the newly passed Rwanda Act. We want to reiterate that knowledge is power. These initiatives are scary - but knowing how unworkable they are is important. This 🧵 by @lizziedearden is a good place to start.
Follow this thread for a fact-checked watch-along of prime minister Rishi Sunak's press conference on the Rwanda scheme
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Following @VirginAtlantic announcement that they will stop helping the Home Office deport people, @BARACUK have started a petition calling on .@British_Airways to do the same. It already has 40,000 signatures in just over two days!. Can you sign & share?
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Solidarity to our migrant and refugee community. And thanks to our allies. Politicians vilify and violate us because it is convenient to do so. But we will continue to move, live and love. We know our power is unlimited and we can build a different world. #NoOneIsIllegal
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Great news: Virgin airlines have confirmed that they will no longer aide the Home Office in carrying out forced deportations. Bravo to @lgsmigrants and all those who have put pressure on this and other airlines over the years.
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After many months of hard work with the amazing @Vicky_Canning and the incredible design team at @calverts cooperative, our Asylum Navigation Board is finally ready!. #asylum #refugees #RefugeesWelcome #KnowledgeIsPower
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Outside Chelmsford Court in solidarity with the #Stansted15 this morning #NoOneIsIllegal @EDeportations
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Unfortunately, we are receiving reports from some volunteers outside **Solihull** immigration reporting cetnre that the press are filming them and the people who are going into the buidling - and this is creating a very stressful and tense situation. @LouCalvey @MigrantVoiceUK.
Message from @wallsmustfall Organiser: 'We are outside the immigration reporting centre in Manchester. The press are here and asking migrants questions about their immigration histories. We advise you not to give your details, unless you are 100% sure it is safe to do so.’.
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“I would like to thank the council for supporting our campaign. I saw friends who have been detained and I live everyday in fear to be detained too. Nobody should have to suffer this way just because they come from another country.” #TheseWallsMustFall
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The Right to Remain Toolkit is a plain language rights guide that helps people to navigate the increasingly complex and hostile asylum and immigration system in the UK. Available online and, in January, an updated book. #migrantrights #humanrights
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🚨BREAKING 🚨. The contract for a barge which houses asylum seekers will not be renewed past January 2025, according to the Home Office. Confining people on a ship was NEVER a good idea. It's time to close other "camps". People belong to communites.
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Huge news! . The High Court has ruled that “right to rent” not only causes racism but cannot be reformed. @JCWI_UK are now calling on the Government to scrap the policy immediately. #RightToRent #HostileEnvironment.
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In solidarity with Mo Farah, the Olympian star adored by millions in Britain, who has courageously told the world his real story - he was trafficked to the UK as a child, illegally. #NoOneIsIllegal.
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Good morning!. 'For those who are marginalised, oppressed, exploited, violated, dehumanised – including migrants and refugees – existing is a form of resistance and a source of possibilities.'. And we are still here. #NoOneIsIllegal.#MigrationIsLife
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Scottish politicians are backing free bus travel for asylum seekers in Scotland, thanks to local campaigning and organising by people seeking asylum. We need more of this. We need to be pushing for the same in other areas, in England and Wales.
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We have just published our NEW guide on Work Exploitation and Migrant Workers' Rights! 🔥✊. This is part of our plan to focus on exploitation, detention and destitution in 2024 to empower our wider community. Read + share by clicking below!.
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Coming soooooon! A BIG delivery of #NoOneIsIllegal stuff just arrived at our office. Tshirts, sweatshirts, goodies and tote bags. All ethically sourced and produced. Fair trade, organic, earth positive, climate neutral. Soon available on our website!
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The Home Office is charging children £1,012 just to register their British citizenship. Tell them to stop profiteering from children's rights:
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We are devastated and enraged to hear so many people of colour, LGBT+ people sharing experiences of verbal and physical attacks since the election results came in. We will stand together, stronger than ever, and defend all of our communities.
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Come to our short online workshop and learn how to navigate the Right to Remain Toolkit, so that you have the best chance of helping yourself and others to get through the UK's immigration and asylum system. Please share widely!.
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🚨 EMERGENCY SOLIDARITY DEMO AT LIVERPOOL IMMIGRATION REPORTING CENTRE🚨. Tue 1 - 3pm, The Capital Building,.6 Union Street Liverpool L3 9PP . ⚡️⚡️Join These Walls Must Fall @wallsmustfall @SKNBMerseyside and Patients Not Passports to say no to detention and the #Rwanda plan⚡️⚡️.
The Home office is coming for us. We need solidarity, right now. Migrant communities across Britain must be on high alert. Especially at immigration reporting centres. We have to defend our communities, together ✊🏿.
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The #Stansted15 have been convicted for preventing a charter deportation flight through peaceful direct action. This action meant that people were able to continue to fight to remain with their families, communities, in the places they have made their lives. Our statement:
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🚨🚨🚨Today, Mersyside Solidarity Knows No Border paid a noisy visit to Bibby Line Group HQ in #Liverpool. Why?. The firm is considering being a partner in the Government’s cruel plan to incarcerate people who are seeking asylum here - on their barge. 🚨🚨🚨
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Our friends at @SASS_Community have created this brill game - Snakes & Ladders: Special Asylum Seekers Edition, inspired by our Asylum Navigation Board! . Created by those in the system, it provides information, while drawing on feelings as well as facts!.
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Tomorrow is International Migrants Day and actions are planned in 17 (!) cities in Britain and Ireland to support the #Stansted15. Actions are being organised by local groups, in coordination with @EDeportations and @UnisNotBorders.
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“This is what we sailors do. If there are people in danger at sea, we save them, without asking where they come from or the colour of their skin”. It feels like a week when it would help to be reminded about the actions of good people.
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Add your voice in demanding the immediate release of all people detained under the Rwanda plan! . And we must continue our work to end immigration detention. #StopRwanda.#FreeRwandaDetainees. Here's how. ⬇️⬇️⬇️.
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Solidarity is at the heart of our work. But what does this word mean?. We asked the asylum and migrant groups that we work with, across the UK, to tell us what "solidarity" means to them. Here's what the brilliant @caragcoventry had to say at our annual gathering last year!
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This is what an "illegal immigrant" looks like. This is what the #HostileEnvironment does. This is border enforcement. This is the deliberate ruining of a young woman's life for political gain. Is this the kind of country we want to live in? #NoOneIsIllegal.
‘I should have done so much with my life by now – but I haven’t’ . Opelo Kgari has lived in Britain for 15 years – her application to stay has been refused. She’s watched her friends start careers while she waits for her future to be decided.
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"A group of MPs and Lords are to establish pressure groups to persuade the Home Office to stop deporting highly skilled migrants using a paragraph of the immigration rules designed to tackle terrorism and people judged to be a threat to national security."
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A new parliamentary political landscape will emerge soon in Britain. We have published an open letter, not addressed to the winner of the General Election, but to you, to every one of you. Please read and share. 🖤❤️🖤.
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Good morning to Nelson Shardey in Wirral who finally has his right to live in the UK confirmed by the Home Office after 46 years of living here. This happened only after a threat of legal challenge and media campaign. The Hostile Environment must go.
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Good morning, happy Monday, FREE THE RWANDA DETAINEES. ✊✊✊
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✳️Right to Remain is hosting Rwanda Information Session on Wednesday 1 May, 11am – 12.30pm. ✳️. Find out more about the session below.
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Liverpool City Council has passed a cross-party motion against immigration detention!. It supports the #TheseWallsMustFall campaign, and states that the injustice of detention "cannot be addressed by improvements to conditions, or minor reforms to the way the system is operated."
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We have joined with other organisations led by @BIDdetention to call on the government to release all people in immigration detention to prevent increased risk of exposure, spread of the virus and losses of life #COVOID19 .
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Politicians: stop saying "illegal immigrants". Words matter. Important intervention by @AmnestyUK #nooneisillegal
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Oh wow thank you! 😍🙌🏼. Her Hostile Environment has ruined so many lives and communities - and has led to the loss of many lives. We will not stop fighting it. And it really helps us keep going when we have lovely actions like this to celebrate ❤️.
I’m celebrating Theresa May’s resignation by donating to @Right_to_Remain. Please join me or give to another charity standing with people hurt by this government.
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The govt has announced a “major surge” in immigration enforcement. The stated aim is to 'smash the gangs’ but will instead punish people who have come to the UK to seek safety. Our blog explains the announcement and what you can do ⬇️. #NoOneIsIllegal.
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The brand new edition of the Right to Remain Toolkit book is available to order via our website. It gives an overview of the legal system, with detailed info on rights at key stages, actions you can take in support of your claim, or to help someone else.
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Many migrants in the UK have an No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) condition on their visa. NRPF excludes migrants from accessing many types of benefits, and causes extreme hardship. 🆕Read and share our new Toolkit page about NPRF🆕.
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Windrush campaigner Eulalee Pennant with terminal illness needs her application for further leave to remain be resolved before she dies, but the Home Office refused to expedite her case. This is inhumane and unacceptable.
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