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Thoughts on Starmer's plans of 'return hubs' for asylum seekers: Probably 20 years ago now, I remember being asked to volunteer as a steward at a Saint George's day family event at a local park. There was jousting with knights and horses. So, my job was to walk up and down making sure kids didn't pass under the barriers into that area.

Afterwards, when things were dying down, I headed over to one of the beer / music tents, ready for a nice cold pint. As I entered, I could see a load of men enthusiastically watching a man singing and playing an acoustic guitar.

The lyrics were something about ordering white shoes, but when they arrived, they were black, and he needed to send them back. Then all of the men down the front with pint glasses in the air (in a salute), chanted along to the chorus "Send the blacks back!"

I ... was ... HORRIFIED ...!!! I turned around, and in total shock, just walked until I was right out of the park. This was the day I learnt that Saint George's day is used as an excuse for neo-nazis to come out.

So, when I hear our Prime Minister talk about real thinking and feeling human beings like they are a pair of shoes the wrong colour - that you can just send to a return hub - like they came from Amazon - all I can visualize, and compare it to, is those despicable men, chanting cryptic rhetoric, spreading their hate, hiding in plain sight at an innocent family event.

Hey guys! I've recently started a fundraiser to help me cover the costs of my asylum to Brazil as Tunisia is getting increasingly more dangerous for me and requires me to leave.
I would really appreciate it if you could donate or share it with anyone who could help 🙏🏼

whydonate.com/en/fundraising/h

#gay #fundraiser #asylumseekers #lgbtq #queer #donate
#brazil

whydonate.comFundraising Wael Nafti | Help Me Escape Tunisia and Seek Asylum in BraFundraising

"Behind almost every piece of infrastructure, every form of surveillance, every maritime rescue and processing of Channel migrants are private companies working to win contracts, implement policy and accrue profits"

Misery is a lucrative business.

#UKPolitics #Migrants #Refugees #AsylumSeekers #SmallBoats

Exclusive: Government hands private firms £3bn in bid to ‘stop the boats’ | openDemocracy
opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr

youtube.com/watch?v=6jQSEYHM7p

#DaveNeal #TheRushHour morning

9.53min. mark #Ask2Lawyers and lawyer Zumbrano say #SuperRichBullies' subpoena might be made up bullshit #SHAMSubpoena

16 min mark Sen. #ChrisVanHollen went to #ElSalvador to get #KilmarAbregoGarcía (go to Dave's #TikTok for the latest updates on #AbregoGarcía). Van Hollen was given alot of b.s. from the government...but it wasn't hard for #KristiNoem aka #PuppyKillerNoem to get in #CECOT 😡
17.53min mark: Interview with #ChrisVanHollen

For the cheap seats in the back: Native-born citizens (in the U.S. and elsewhere) committ the MAJORITY of the crimes in their native countries. NOT immigrants, NOT #migrants, NOT #asylumseekers, NOT #refugees, NOT #UndocumentedPeople!

btw, 24.20min mark The schmuck that is barking is #SebastianGorka, some sort of czar in the U.S., is a Hungarian-British #farright antisemite and #whitesupremacist!!!! He has NO RIGHT to be in public office in ANY COUNTRY!!

#StopDeportations #StopTrafficking #ContemptOfCourt #ArrestMAGACabinet
#HabeasCorpus #DueProcess #NoConcentrationCamps

Canadian woman #incarcerated entering the country to go to a professional conference, despite holding all the appropriate paperwork.

And she's still there, eleven days later, in horrible conditions this country usually only reserves for the poor, the Black, and the brown.

The only upside here is that the improper #arrest of an attractive young white Canadian woman for imaginary #immigration violations might start to open some people's eyes.

#immigration #detention #Canada #resist #Ω #refugees #asylumseekers #tourists #incarceration #privateprisons #impeach47 #deportElon

vancouversun.com/news/bc-woman

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vancouversunB.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chainsHer mother says 35-year-old Jasmine Mooney has been detained in inhumane conditions since March 3, and is pleading for help. Read more.

Purim in the second term of the #Ahasuerus / #Haman administration:

Purim calls on us to emulate Esther, our model for saving communities threatened by the #corrupt #tyrant and his scheming, evil counselor. Our tradition demands that we intervene on behalf of #refugees, #asylumseekers, #LGBT, #women, #Ukraine, #veterans, #federalemployees, and all those targeted by #hate.

בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם בַּזְּמַן הַזֶּה .
As it was then, so it is today.