Pay out for asylum family
30 January
A Bolivian refugee has won a settlement of £100,000 from the Home Office after falsely imprisoning her and her family at an immigration detention centre. They were kept in ‘appalling’ conditions, despite the fact a judicial review into her case was taking place.
Guardian: Family wins £100,000 for detention ordeal
BBC: Family to get detention damages
Cost of housing asylum seekers
28 January
The tabloids ran a story on the cost of housing asylum seekers each year, which according to the Home Office in response to a written question from the Tories, amounts to £230m a year.
Express: £230m a year bill to house asylum seekers
Daily Star: 5m a week to house asylum seekers in the UK.
Migrants freed – heading for UK?
27 January
The Daily Mail and Express reported on the release of 124 migrants who were arrested in France, after arriving there on a ‘people smuggling’ boat. The papers claim they are now free to head to Britain, where the ‘soft touch’ policies will let them stay.
Click here to read our blog in response to these articles.
Daily Express: Migrants freed to head to Britain
Daily Mail: French set 124 illegal migrants free to way Britain
Americans claim asylum in Britain
26 January
A report following a Freedom of Information request from the Guardian showed that between 2004-2008, 45 American people sought asylum in the UK.
Our response to this was quote in the following article:
Guardian: 45 Americans claim asylum in Britain
Clegg stands up for gay refugee
20 January
Our letter in response to an article in the Independent about Nick Clegg standing up for gay refugees was published in the Independent.
Independent: Gay refugees are in real danger
Asylum children go missing
20 January
A BBC report showed four asylum seeking children a week go missing from the care of local authorities – that is 330 children between the age of 9-17 who went missing last year. Many are believed to have been targeted for prostitution by traffickers.
BBC: Asylum children missing from care
