IN PICTURES
A decade of resistance Migrant justice groups are marking ten years of resistance to the government’s hostile environment policies by vowing to continue the fight. When Theresa May stood up in the House of Commons in April and criticised the government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda on the grounds of “legality, practicality and efficacy”, it was a remarkable end to a spiral of anti-migrant hostility she had herself sparked as home secretary in 2012. Ever since she announced her intention “to create, here in Britain, a really hostile environment” for illegal immigrants, people across the country – from NHS workers to teachers, employers to bank workers – have been pressured into acting as border guards. But from outrage at the Windrush scandal which followed, to successive legal challenges to the policy, which was found to be in breach of equalities law, as well as protests, campaigns and petitions, the hostile environment has been resisted every step of the way. A week of action in June, organised by the Solidarity Knows No Borders network, will continue the struggle. For more info see: firmcharter.org.uk/week-of-action
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