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Hostile Environment

Concerns over potential racial profiling of British citizens by Home Office prompt calls for change

British citizens are again topping the list of nationalities being stopped and checked by immigration enforcement officers.

Luke Butterly and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Features

Lockdown gave a safety net for Bristol’s hidden homeless... But many remain on the street this time round

Hannah Vickers

Reports

A morning with activists taking direct action against immigration enforcement

Hannah Vickers

Ideas and Action

Ken Macharia not detained after asylum refusal

60 supporters accompanied him to his monthly check-in at Bridgewater police station.

Samar Khan

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Revealed: Evidence of racial profiling of thousands of British citizens by Home Office

Adam Cantwell-Corn and Charles Boutaud

Bristol and Beyond

Every week in Patchway, dozens of people face the long arm of the hostile environment

Georgia Edwards and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Interviews

Person being escorted on to a uk border agency coach

Interview: Kingswood man facing controversial deportation

In the wake of the Windrush scandal, the deportation flight has been criticised by politicians and campaigners.

Joe Lo

Edition 18

A community fights for asylum justice

Bristol Bison rugby player Ken Macharia speaks about his experience of detention, as the system comes under the spotlight.

Lorna Stephenson

Reports

Council to vote to condemn immigration detention

These Walls Must Fall campaign gaining ground in Bristol and around the country.

Georgia Edwards

Ideas and Action

“Why we’re extending solidarity to all migrants”

Alice Cutler is the Welcome Centre Manager at Bristol Refugee Rights.

Alice Cutler

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UPDATE: Man detained in Easton immigration raid released after “further checks”

The raid made national news as a show of dissent to the ‘hostile environment’ immigration regime.

Adam Cantwell-Corn

Reports

100 people blockaded an immigration raid for seven hours in Easton last night

People took to the streets of Easton in an act of defiance against the government’s ‘hostile environment’ immigration enforcement regime.

Adam Cantwell-Corn

Removing Rough Sleepers

Rough sleeping EU migrants are safe from Immigration Enforcement and the council, for now

One less thing to fear for the city’s rough sleepers

Adam Cantwell-Corn

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Plans to deport rough sleepers ruled illegal

Council plans to work with the government’s Immigration Enforcement to detain and remove European rough sleepers from the UK has been thrown into doubt.

Adam Cantwell-Corn

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This is how many Bristol rough sleepers will be 'removed' from UK

Documents obtained by the Cable show the council plans for removing immigrant rough sleepers

Adam Cantwell-Corn

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Revealed: Council already reporting homeless to Immigration Enforcement

Joint operations between the council and Immigration Enforcement have been ongoing for at least two years

Adam Cantwell-Corn

Investigations

Brits most ‘stopped and checked’ for immigration crimes they can’t commit

Data suggests racial profiling in 11 major UK cities.

Adam Cantwell-Corn

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Council to work with immigration enforcement to deport rough sleepers

New funding targets individuals for detention.

Adam Cantwell-Corn

City

Schools, children’s data... and immigration enforcement

The Cable interviews Jen Persson, director of the national campaign defenddigitalme, which aims to stop the government sharing the personal data of millions of children with a plethora of third parties – and the Home Office.

Daniel Fox

City

Local NHS staff resist plans to charge migrants for healthcare

Health workers claim cuts and privitisation threaten NHS, not migrants – and they’re not willing to act as ‘border guards’.

Genevieve Ross

Edition 4

179% increase in immigration enforcement visits

Illustration: Luke Carter (lukecarter.co.uk) Hoos u turjumaad Soomaali: Scroll down for Somali translation As the humanitarian crisis unfolds in Calais and places further afield, it’s...

Mohamed Rashid

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