What will taking away the security of refugee status actually mean for people's lives?
Read our brilliant campaign manager, Allan, in The Mirror:
What will taking away the security of refugee status actually mean for people's lives?
Read our brilliant campaign manager, Allan, in The Mirror:
Shame on you Air France.
You are forcibly deporting people who came to the UK seeking safety, many fleeing war, persecution and climate breakdown.
Stop these cruel deportations, now.
Join the boycott of Air France until they commit to stopping these inhumane deportations.
"Humane". "Compassionate". "Fair".
Just a few of the words the Government has used this week to describe its new asylum rules.
This gaslighting won't work. Most people understand that locking up & forcibly deporting children is the opposite of humanity.
This government will stop at nothing to win far-right votes.
These are CHILDREN who've seen bombs destroy their homes and loved ones die. They deserve safety - nothing less.
This disgusting policy would stain our country's conscience forever.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
The government's fresh wave of asylum policy proposals are incoherent and cruel.
They risk making our already brutal asylum system impossible to survive, while recreating measures that already exist and failing to establish genuine routes to safety.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Meanwhile, in Germany...
www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7000...
Headline from the independent newspaper reads "UK suspends student visas for four countries over asylum abuse claims"
So you don't want people coming to the UK by boat? That makes sense - it's incredibly dangerous.
So what do you do? Stop safe routes like family reunion. Then ban people from coming to study in case they seek safety. You refuse to make new real safe routes - and drive people to dangerous journeys.
When you close safer pathways, you don’t make desperation disappear, you just reroute it, meaning more people will be forced into taking dangerous journeys to save their lives.
Singling out these countries, knowing so many people have already been displaced due to conflict, is especially cruel.
Just so we’re clear:
❌ Travelling clandestinely or in a small boat to seek asylum: wrong
❌ Travelling safely and regularly to seek asylum: also wrong
Paying millions to re-check claims while refusing refugees the basic security they’ need to put down roots, work and rebuild their lives.
We'd love the Government to explain how exactly this lose-lose plan is going to make anything better for anyone.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
We all need a home. Take action today to stop newly-granted refugees being made homeless.
The government will be making a decision on the future of the 56 day move-on period in the next few weeks. Use Young Roots' online tool to email your MP – it only takes a few minutes!
The Labour Party says it's determined to lift children out of poverty.
So why don't children seeking sanctuary count?
✍️ @nbphillips1872.bsky.social
This is what happens when you destroy safe routes. When your only response to people needing to flee their homes is hostility, hostility and more hostility.
Even more dangerous journeys. Even more deaths. The only way to stop dangerous journeys is with safe routes.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
📄NEW: Today, the Home Secretary has announced that from now on, refugees who apply for and are granted asylum in the UK will be given 2.5 years’ temporary refugee status.
While there are still many unanswered questions, we have shared what we know so far, and what we think about it in a blog post:
Utterly cruel, pointless and harmful. It does not minimise how bad Conservatives were to say Labour are now the most anti-asylum government in most people's living memory. This prevents people feeling any sense of safety and security after fleeing persecution.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
We all need a home. Take action today to stop newly-granted refugees being made homeless.
Gov is deciding on future of 56 day move-on period in the coming weeks. Use @weareyoungroots.bsky.social online tool to email your MP – it only takes a few minutes!
action.youngroots.org.uk/make-56-days...
How can you settle, work, or make friends when you might be sent back to the country you've fled after just 30 months?
And how will a country already struggling with a huge asylum backlog process millions of new case reviews every year?
This heartless anti-refugee policy makes no sense.
Refugees do not choose to come here - by definition, they were forced to flee.
Scrapping permanent status will trap refugees in a state of insecurity and fear. This is inhumane cruelty.
Doing so says some people deserve fewer rights - and that inequality is law.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Today is a dark day for anyone who believes in sanctuary in the UK.
People who've fled war and torture should be able to rebuild their lives in peace and security - not live under a constant threat of removal.
We must not stop fighting these appalling anti-refugee laws.
People who aren't safe in their home countries should be able to rebuild their lives in safety and security here. That's the whole point of our asylum system.
So why is the asylum grant rate as low as 34% for a clearly unsafe country like Afghanistan?
Do not abandon hope. We can win. 🧡
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1/ The result from Gorton & Denton sends a clear message: voters don't want their leaders to scapegoat & demonise migrants. They want them to focus on real problems that effect their day-to-day lives.
We hope this government listens.
If they are, we have some suggestions 💡
Spain just granted legal status to undocumented migrants. So what does that mean for us here in the UK?
Not that we need to copy and paste Spain's approach. But that our hostile migration system doesn't have to be this way - we can imagine so much better.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/spai...
For years, politicians have insisted that scapegoating people seeking sanctuary & throwing migrant communities under the bus is the only way to win election.
Yesterday proved what we already knew to be true: people are far kinder and wiser.
Our communities stand together. Politicians: take note.
An important reminder that an asylum system that works better for all of us is possible - and it starts with giving people seeking sanctuary the right to work
Well done to the amazing Sheffield Lift The Ban group for their brilliant campaigning towards this vital goal 👏
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Last year, Refugee Family Reunion - the main safe route for children to reunite with family - was suspended. We’re taking legal action to challenge it.
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The suspension of family reunion has caused huge amounts of distress and worry for the women we support.
Forcibly keeping families apart is cruel.
We're pleased to hear that @safepassageintl.bsky.social's challenge will be heard in the high court.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... 1/3
Refusing people sanctuary does nothing to make their home countries safer, it just leads to more costly appeals, dangerous re-migration attempts and untold human misery and fear.
Bad decision making benefits no one.
It seems our Government is more interested in boasting about traumatic deportations on TikTok than it is in building the faster, fairer system it promised.
26.02.2026 11:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s particularly notable that today’s figures show a surge in the asylum refusal rates, including for clearly unsafe countries such as Afghanistan which traditionally saw high approval rates.
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