Griff Ferris

Home Office may forcibly remove child asylum seekers from UK in handcuffs Move is part of scheme to target families for expedited voluntary removals before enforced removal proceedings

The Home Office wants to handcuff children during forced removals of families.

This level of violence & dehumanisation must never be normalised, our spokesperson Griff Ferris warns.

Stand up for your neighbours.

Organise locally.

Boycott border profiteers.

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The government continues to perpetrate this cruelty and violence in an increasingly desperate attempt to court the far right.

But behind these numbers are real people who have had their lives torn apart.

We need a compassionate system that puts people first.

Home Office says nearly 60,000 people deported from UK or left voluntarily since 2024 election Shabana Mahmood insists deportations will rise, as Labour government is accused of promoting ‘harmful stereotypes’ of migrants

This announcement of mass deportations while also seeking to gut rights protections is frightening.

And the home secretary is yet again using openly fascist rhetoric.

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Our Griff Ferris speaks on the BBC about the waste of public money on private companies that profit from providing inadequate housing for those seeking safety & how this money can go towards improving local council housing to house people seeking asylum in our communities, where they belong.

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Home Office says nearly 60,000 people deported from UK or left voluntarily since 2024 election Shabana Mahmood insists deportations will rise, as Labour government is accused of promoting ‘harmful stereotypes’ of migrants

The government has gone very far down a very dark road.

This announcement of mass deportations while also seeking to gut rights protections is frightening.

Meanwhile, the home secretary is openly using fascist rhetoric.

We were quoted in the Guardian 👇

BREAKING: FOOTAGE OF STATE ABUSE OF PEOPLE HELD IN IMMIGRATION DETENTION

"We are asylum seekers, we are not criminals, we are not animals. Between 41,000 people who crossed the channel why just we 200 persons are in detention? End the detention of asylum seekers. End our pain."

These raids rely on fear and isolation to work.

Our power is in building community and showing up for each other like in Lewisham. Join your local antiraids network, or start your own. Details here: antiraids.net

We must resist these raids together.

It’s sickening to see the government gloat about immigration raids that tear families apart, in yet another racist appeal to the far right.

Thank you Lewisham Anti-raids for showing up, monitoring, reminding people of their rights, and making sure that no-one was taken.

While we celebrate this tactical win, we continue to struggle with the Palestinian liberation movement to dismantle the colonial border regime and Zionist supremacy at the root cause of forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and genocide. [5/5]

Hasan* came to Britain as a baby & has lived here almost all his life. But two Home Office U-turns & the long battle for him to be granted status reflects the continuing culpability of the British state in the centuries-long oppression, colonisation & genocide of the Palestinian people. [2/5]

Palestinian citizen of Israel wins UK asylum over ‘well-founded fear of persecution’ Exclusive: Refugee status granted despite attempt by former home secretary James Cleverly to block 26-year-old’s claim

🎉Our client has won! In a landmark case, he is the first Palestinian born in Israeli-occupied Palestine to be granted asylum in Britain, despite sinister ministerial intervention. 🧵[1/5]

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Today we protested in the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s constituency with the Migrant Workers’ Rights Coalition.

We demand dignity and justice for all migrants and a dismantling of colonial border regimes.

#HereToStay #HereToFight

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

🚨 VICTORY! 🚨

After years of fighting Home Office failures, our client – a survivor of trafficking with severe mental health needs – has finally been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain🎉🎉🎉.

Asylum hotel protests aren't legitimate concerns. They're far-right Asylum hotel protests across England aren't 'legitimate concerns', they're the result of a failure to tackle racist far-right narratives.

The violence & intimidation outside migrant accommodation isn't ‘local’ concern or ‘legitimate grievances’.

This is a racist far-right movement encouraged by the government & media.

We must go out & protect our communities.

By @gferr1s.bsky.social & Sadaf Ahmed.

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#OtD 29 Jul 1962 fascist Oswald Mosley tried to march with the Union Movement in Manchester, UK. However, he was attacked by anti-fascists and had to be rescued by police. A Mosley speech later was drowned out by a crowd of anti-fascists. More info: www.patreon.com/posts/e37b-6...

Solidarity statement on Palestine JCWI’s statement on Palestine

Today marks 650 days of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

JCWI stands in full solidarity with the Palestinian people.

We stand against genocide, apartheid, colonial violence and UK complicity.

📌 Read our full statement now
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This is where the government’s dangerous and racist rhetoric over migrants and migration has led us, emboldening and legitimising a violent far-right.

Angry mob launch 'racist attack' on staff starting shift at migrant hotel A video of the bloodied workers went viral online.

On Sunday, a far-right mob surrounded a hostel in Epping Forest where asylum seekers are housed, seriously injuring and hospitalising two men in a racist attack.

The mob chanted racist slogans, including referencing the government's 'stop the boats' rhetoric. 🧵

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We stand with Palestine Action and all those taking direct action in this country to end the genocide against Palestinians.

Shutting down arms factories and disabling military planes to prevent Israel killing Palestinians is not terrorism.

Direct action is a vital form of protest...

Cover of the Statewatch report “New Technologies, Old Injustice” set against a red-toned photo of a crowd, with white brackets overlaid on some faces, mimicking facial recognition targets.

New report out now: New Technologies, Old Injustice 🚨

Across Europe, authorities are using so-called ‘predictive’ technologies to profile and criminalise marginalised communities.

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Tear gas deployed against migrants in Calais Hundreds gathered on the dunes before making dashes towards the sea at Gravelines beach, north east Calais, all intent on boarding a single dinghy.

🚨French police have tear-gassed migrants at the coast.

This inhumane and reprehensible violence is paid for by UK taxes.

This does nothing to dissuade people from crossing & merely adds to the violence and harm. People need safe routes, now.

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Police use of 'predictive' algorithms & databased systems are just a modern form of racial profiling.

These automated systems just automate institutionally racist policing.

They repeatedly 'predict' that Black, racially minoritised people and poorer people will commit crime.

They must be banned.

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.

That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.

Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

No matter our postcode, we all want our communities to live safely and thrive.

In Amnesty International UK's NEW REPORT we exposed how ~75% of police forces across the UK are using technology to target racialised and working class communities.

Act now: www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/ban-...

The step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous.

Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family.

To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.

The UK Ministry of Justice’s "murder prediction" tool isn’t the only algorithmic system profiling people as future criminals.

The MoJ is also using an AI system to assess the ‘risk’ of re-offending—profiling over 1,300 people every day.

Read more:
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Belgian police want to predict crime—but what they’re doing is reinforcing discrimination.

A new report from Statewatch, Ligue des droits humains and Liga voor Mensenrechten underscores the risks of these ‘predictive’ policing systems.

Our upcoming criminal justice research symposium on 8 May will include a workshop on AI in criminal justice, featuring:

- Griff Ferris, @statewatch.bsky.social
- Dr Patrick Williams, Harm to Healing Coalition
- Dr Bina Bhardwa, @icpr.bsky.social

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1/ ‘Predictive’ policing tools in France are flawed, opaque, and dangerous—especially when they rely on socio-demographic data.

A new report from La Quadrature du Net, now available in English as part of a Statewatch-coordinated project, lays out the risks in detail.