Tag archives for Home Office
Home Office Set to Release Northeye Site
HUGH SULLIVAN A senior civil servant at the Home Office confirmed last week that the former prison premises of Northeye on the outskirts of Bexhill are no longer being considered…
Northeye: Back in the Frame for Detaining Would-Be Migrants?
HUGH SULLIVAN Amidst a flurry of news about cross-channel migration, including stepped-up border security and multiple drownings, there has been no word from Sir Keir Starmer’s government about the future…
Clearsprings awash with profit
In 2019 the Home Office awarded six regional contracts across the UK for a ten-year period to provide accommodation, support and transport services for asylum seekers pending decisions on their…
SAVE THE CHILDREN!
Refugee aid group highlights safeguarding failures BY HUGH SULLIVAN On 24 January the UK Parliament debated allegations published in the national Observer newspaper the previous weekend that dozens of unaccompanied…
Boat People
Political Clashes over Peril at Sea Well over a thousand people – men, women, children and babies – have crossed the English Channel from France on small boats during the…
The Realities of Being an Immigration Lawyer
Plans for new legislation on asylum policy (see previous HIP, Hastings Community of Sanctuary joins new national coalition to build a fairer asylum system) involve profound changes to immigration law.…
Cross-Channel Migration –The Fallacy
As those who campaign on behalf of asylum-seeking refugees point out, there is a fundamental fallacy at the heart of the Home Office policy spelt out by Immigration Minister Chris…
Refugee Week 2020
By Fiona McGarry This year the theme of Refugee Week (15th-21st June) is ‘Imagine’. It’s important that we do try to imagine, so we can begin to understand how people…
A Search For “Illegals”
By Charlie Crabb On the afternoon of 8th April, out on my daily walk with my partner in Hastings Country Park, we were approached by two policemen. They asked us…
Community Ledge #9: Jane Grimshaw
Jane Grimshaw is a central figure in the refugee-supporting networks in our town. Jane co-founded Hastings Support Refugees in 2015, and since then has effectively led many initiatives, masterminding huge…
Lift The Ban: Let Asylum Seekers Work!
By Jay Kramer Hastings & St Leonards took part in a national campaign on 15th June aimed at persuading the Home Office to allow asylum seekers to undertake paid work…
Open letter to Amber Rudd, MP Hastings and Rye
11th October 2016 Dear Amber Rudd, As your constituents we write to express our deep concern for at least 387 unaccompanied children in the Calais ‘Jungle’ who have been granted…