Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 28, 2024 10:38:02 GMT
Why the fuck would they warn people this was about to happen?
The Home Office will launch a surprise operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK on Monday in preparation for deportation to Rwanda, weeks earlier than expected, the Guardian understands.
Officials plan to hold refugees who turn up for routine meetings at immigration service offices and will also pick people up nationwide in a two-week exercise.
They will be immediately transferred to detention centres, which have already been prepared for the operation, and held to be put on later flights to Rwanda. Others identified for these flights are already being held.
It is thought the launch of the operation has been timed to coincide with Thursday’s local council elections in England, to boost Rishi Sunak’s claims he is cracking down on illegal migration.
The prime minister stated last week the first flights to Rwanda would take off in “10 to 12 weeks” after the government forced its controversial bill legalising the flights through Westminster.
Police in Scotland have been put on alert because of the high risks of street protests and attempts by pro-refugee campaigners to stop detentions. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Local communities in Scotland have twice prevented deportations by staging mass protests on Kenmure Street in Glasgow, in May 2021, and in Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, in June 2022.
On both occasions, hundreds of local people surrounded immigration enforcement vehicles to prevent asylum seekers being removed after tense standoffs between protesters and police.
Demonstrators were alerted by a protesters’ network to the detentions on Kenmure Street, and two men were eventually released from Border Force custody after a six-hour confrontation to avoid violent clashes.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/28/home-office-to-detain-asylum-seekers-across-uk-in-shock-rwanda-operation
The Home Office will launch a surprise operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK on Monday in preparation for deportation to Rwanda, weeks earlier than expected, the Guardian understands.
Officials plan to hold refugees who turn up for routine meetings at immigration service offices and will also pick people up nationwide in a two-week exercise.
They will be immediately transferred to detention centres, which have already been prepared for the operation, and held to be put on later flights to Rwanda. Others identified for these flights are already being held.
It is thought the launch of the operation has been timed to coincide with Thursday’s local council elections in England, to boost Rishi Sunak’s claims he is cracking down on illegal migration.
The prime minister stated last week the first flights to Rwanda would take off in “10 to 12 weeks” after the government forced its controversial bill legalising the flights through Westminster.
Police in Scotland have been put on alert because of the high risks of street protests and attempts by pro-refugee campaigners to stop detentions. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Local communities in Scotland have twice prevented deportations by staging mass protests on Kenmure Street in Glasgow, in May 2021, and in Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, in June 2022.
On both occasions, hundreds of local people surrounded immigration enforcement vehicles to prevent asylum seekers being removed after tense standoffs between protesters and police.
Demonstrators were alerted by a protesters’ network to the detentions on Kenmure Street, and two men were eventually released from Border Force custody after a six-hour confrontation to avoid violent clashes.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/28/home-office-to-detain-asylum-seekers-across-uk-in-shock-rwanda-operation
