Praxis, for migrants and refugees

Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform Hannah Spencer, a 34-year-old plumber, also becomes the first Green Party candidate to win a Westminster by-election.

⚠️BREAKING: A powerful result in Gorton & Denton.

Voters rejected the divisive policies of Reform and Labour that have been designed to target migrant communities.

Manchester chose hope over fear and made it clear: this is not who we are.

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So proud of @praxisprojects.bsky.social for the endless work to stop the settlement changes. We've been working on routes to settlement, NRPF , child poverty/homelessness for 10 years. Now is your chance to support our efforts and get these changes stopped before it's too late.

How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – an exclusive visual analysis In the past five years, MPs’ attitudes in the House of Commons towards immigration have swung harder to the right than at almost any other time in the last century

The political debate about migration is the most hostile it has been in almost a century, with the biggest swing in just the last few years.

Language has consequences, it trickles into in our policies and into violence on our streets.
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UK suspension of refugee family reunion scheme to be challenged in high court Judge allows Safe Passage International to launch judicial review of halting of right to bring in children and partners

📢"The impact of families being separated in the chaos of fleeing cannot be underestimated. The government is abandoning the UK’s duties to protect refugee children."

@safepassageintl.bsky.social is challenging the suspension of refugee family reunion in court.

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On 11th March, we’re turning up to Parliament in the Mass Lobby for Migrant Rights.

Along with migrant and refugee groups, unions, and faith groups we’re going to call on as many MPs as possible to oppose the Government’s earned settlement plans.

Learn more: www.praxis.org.uk/mass-lobby-a...

How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – an exclusive visual analysis In the past five years, MPs’ attitudes in the House of Commons towards immigration have swung harder to the right than at almost any other time in the last century

The political debate about migration is the most hostile it has been in almost a century, with the biggest swing in just the last few years.

Language has consequences, it trickles into in our policies and into violence on our streets.
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

🚨The government is rushing through new rules making it harder for people to belong in our communities.

It takes just 2 minutes to share your concerns about "earned settlement" with you MP, using this template from @praxisprojects.bsky.social 🔽

act.praxis.org.uk/email-mp-con...

Failures in care of epileptic man who died in immigration detention, inquest hears Théophile Kaliviotis died in custody at Brook House immigration removal centre near Gatwick Airport

It’s deeply alarming that detention centres are failing to follow their own safeguarding guidance - just weeks after excessive force against vulnerable migrants was exposed at Brook House.

Immigration detention actively inflicts harm. It must end.

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UK migrant families face giving up vital in-work benefits to avoid being ‘punished’ Under Shabana Mahmood’s proposals, wait for settled status would double to 20 years if public funds used while in work

📢"It’s like you have to choose between settlement and surviving."

Essential reading from @ramfel.bsky.social exposing how families are being punished simply for accessing the support they were legally entitled to.

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Reform to announce plans for ICE-style UK border agency: live Zia Yusuf, the party’s new home affairs spokesperson, will unveil plan for ‘Trump inspired’ agency in speech

Reform UK have just shared their Trumpian vision for this country. Let’s be clear, the language used is dangerous and extreme. Nigel Farage's plans would tank our economy, damage our democracy and make the UK a less safe place for all of us.

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Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say Nigel Farage’s party plans to deport up to 288,000 people a year on five flights a day and expand stop and search

Reform offers a future where British people loose their rights to drive racist, xenophobic policies that spread hate and harm.

We know where this leads: children torn from their parents, people afraid of random detention, a state no one can hold to account.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Government is betraying its promise to millions. Email your MP now & defend migrant rights. The Government is ramping up their hostile environment policies once again. This time, they want to make it harder than ever for migrants and refugees to settle in the UK permanently. Email your MP no...

If you're worried about what the "earned settlement" changes are going to mean for you, your family or your community, email your MP today. It takes 2 minutes 🔽 act.praxis.org.uk/email-mp-con...

Will Rachel Reeves be forced to raise taxes over falling immigration? Rapidly declining net migration figures could eliminate the headroom the chancellor established in the budget if the OBR downgrades its forecast

This is why the Home Office shouldn't be allowed to change the immigration rules in ways that affect all our lives, without so much as a shred of scrutiny.

Dramatic changes to settlement rules are coming soon with:

🚨No impact assessments yet
🚨No say for MPs

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Reform UK would reimpose two-child benefit cap Robert Jenrick says the country cannot afford to

Reform's agenda won’t just hurt migrants - it will entrench hardship for working-class communities of every background.

Record high child poverty is the direct result of the very austerity policies Reform’s cabinet pushed when they were in the Conservative Party.

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We have heard that there will be racist protests in Manchester this Saturday which may be violent (21 Feb). Please take care if you are in the area.

Please know that these people coming to Manchester to protest are the minority - they do not speak for our community who stand in solidarity with you.

This is really great, from @minnierahman.bsky.social 👇

Reform accused of ‘pitching for votes of misogynists’ with plan to scrap Equality Act Charities have warned that scrapping the Equality Act would be a ‘significant step backwards’ for discrimination protections in Britain

Farage and his band of millionaires want to legalise discrimination - proving yet again they side with the powerful over working people.

Scrapping the Equality Act is Reform's opening move before dismantling protections for everyone.

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Labour’s migration doom loop The Starmer government risks trapping the United Kingdom in a spiral of discontent and decline

📢"Without a convincing narrative, he & the UK will remain trapped in the doom loop: each attempt to “restore control" undermines the very economic & social foundations on which durable political consent depends."

@jdportes.bsky.social on Starmer's trap.

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I spent a year in an asylum hotel. I was beaten up and lived on £9 a week Azzar faced death threats in Saudi Arabia but in Britain, he was attacked, harassed and 'not treated like a human'

Another harrowing reminder of why asylum hotels are not suitable for anyone.

Community accommodation is safer, more dignified and far, far cheaper than either hotels or military camps. Everyone deserves a real home in a community.
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UK migration could be negative this year – how will that hit the economy? Universities, builders and health trusts are feeling the squeeze, as thinktank says effect of zero net migration could be similar to Brexit

Thinktanks warn zero net migration could hit like Brexit: slower growth & fewer opportunities for all.

Slashing migration won’t fix the cost-of-living crisis. It will pile even more pressure on our universities, NHS & the key sectors keeping the country running.

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Britain’s care system promotes modern slavery. A genuinely humane government would reform it | Andrea Egan New proposals that would force poorly paid migrant workers to wait longer for earned settlement are nothing more than an assault on working-class people, says Unison’s general secretary Andrea Egan

📢"Our members are silenced as the threat of deportation is punitively held over them. I don’t say it lightly, but the sponsorship system has effectively made modern slavery a structural feature of our care system."

Urgent call to action from @unison.org.uk

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Ratcliffe owes migrants more than a half-hearted apology but so does Starmer – his policies created this environment | LBC Blaming migrants for today’s economic problems is a convenient way to dodge responsibility for that failure, writes Minnie Rahman

📢"Powerful men are quick to inflame division, but slow to accept accountability for the consequences.

Migration is not an aberration in our history – like colonialism was; it is a constant thread woven through it."

@minnierahman.bsky.social for @lbc.co.uk

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Reminder: Today is the LAST day you or your organisation can respond to the Government's Public Consultation on their proposed changes to settlement. Check out our follow along guide to help you respond: www.praxis.org.uk/consultation

Check out our @minnierahman.bsky.social's thread for more on this story 🔽

The PM is right, Jim should apologise.

But if Keir is looking for some ways to stop stoking divisions in our communities, we'd humbly suggest he start by taking a look at his Government's immigration policies.

PM asks Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants' Sir Keir Starmer says comments by the businessman and Manchester United co-owner are

So we have a billionaire, tax-avoiding owner of a football club literally *full* of migrants, wheeling out racist tropes straight out of the far-right playbook.

Jim & people like him are the problem, not the migrants working every day to keep our economy afloat.

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Spain shows the case for migrant rights is not only a moral one but an economic one. Right now, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is going in the opposite direction and the truth is, we're all going to be worse off.
People need to be able to settle in our communities in a quick and affordable way.

Nurses’ families fear being torn apart in UK immigration crackdown, survey says Exclusive: Most people in charity’s study say they worry about being separated from relatives under Mahmood plans

⚠️Our survey reveals 3 in 5 fear family separation under new settlement plans.

@minnierahman.bsky.social: "We all know migrants bring vital skills and experience. The government needs to stop penalising migrant communities and start reflecting that reality.”

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Changes to earned settlement risk deepening child poverty The government must publish an impact assessment of its settlement reforms before going ahead with the changes.

📢"Migrant children should not be collateral damage of what amounts to precarity by design.

There is growing concern across Parliament about the direction of travel. The Government should listen."

@oliviablakemp.bsky.social for @politicshome.bsky.social

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53 people dead or missing after migrant boat capsizes in Mediterranean Only two survivors rescued after boat overturned off Libyan coast, UN migration agency says

Our hearts are with the families of the 53 people, including two babies, who lost their lives after a boat capsized off the coast of Libya.

These deaths were preventable and they are a stain on our politics.

We need to open safe pathways now.

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