Immigration
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Ideas And Action Bristol And Beyond Reports
A morning with activists taking direct action against immigration enforcement
The group said the action was in response to the "institutional racism of the government's hostile environment policy".
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Edition 20 Banner Home Page Investigations
Revealed: NHS under fire for steep increase in charging migrants for healthcare
Evidence suggests vulnerable people who should get free healthcare are being forced to cough up, while others are being chased by bailiffs.
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Ken Macharia not detained after asylum refusal
60 supporters accompanied him to his monthly check-in at Bridgewater police station.
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Ideas And Action Edition 18 Banner Home Page
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.
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Long read: Two years after Kamil Ahmad’s murder, there is cause for hope and anger
Disabled asylum seekers have faced appalling injustices for too long – action is needed.
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Previously unseen interview with murdered asylum seeker Kamil Ahmad
In this short film, Kamil Ahmad speaks of his experiences as an asylum seeker in the UK four years before he was murdered.
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Kamil Ahmad’s death ‘avoidable’, review finds
A safeguarding review into the murder of Kamil Ahmad says his death could have been avoided with better communication between services.
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Bristol activist could face life in prison for stopping deportation flight
Today is the first day of trial for 15 activists, including Bristol woman, who grounded deportation flight last year.
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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.
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Bristol’s changing hostels in the age of Brexit
“In the ten years I’ve been working in the Backpackers, I’ve never experienced a situation like this.” Hostel workers on the impact of Brexit.
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Investigations Banner Home Page Removing Rough Sleepers
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
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Video: Behind the murder of Kamil Ahmad
The Cable spoke to Adil Jaifar, a translator and friend of Kamil, to find out how the disabled Kurdish asylum seeker fell through the gaps...