No shit.
ICE is arresting law-abiding immigrants AT scheduled and lawful court appointments! Of course it would cause the backlog to decrease. Who would try to follow the law when the brown shirts are running buckwild out there?
https://rollcall.com/2025/10/20/immigration-court-backlog-subsides-in-second-trump-administration/
🇫🇷 🇬🇧 French police are slashing boats but migrants are still determined to reach the UK
https://apnews.com/article/france-britain-migration-small-boats-1faf4d1342713bcc5842198e8a5dce4b
French police have intensified efforts to stop migrants crossing the English Channel. Recent videos show officers slashing inflatable boats, forcing migrants into the water. The Associated Press obtained video of one such incident near Boulogne, with another filmed by the BBC. France, under pressure from the U.K., is considering allowing police to intervene farther offshore, raising safety concerns. Migrants, many fleeing hardship, say the crossings are dangerous but worth the risk. Over 20,000 people have made the journey this year, a record pace. Campaigners warn tougher measures could increase casualties while police unions highlight the risks for officers involved.
We continue our conversation with Michael Layer, candidate for SCDP 3rd Vice Chair as we cover pressing news items and other miscellanea.
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Refugee report
Europe still struggles to deal with refugees coming to its shores
November 2024
This month’s report is Eurocentric. Hopefully we can look at the wider aspects next time, as we become clearer about the new US President’s plans for widespread deportation (and also the Australian government’s battle with the courts).
The government’s proposals on the small boats crisis remain unclear at the moment. Apart from the Prime Minister’s curious assertion that the people smugglers constitute a threat to national security, things continue much as before. The total number of arrivals so far this year is over 32,000, 22% up on last year (but still below 2022). Worse overcrowding on the boats is partly responsible for 64 migrants dying at sea this year (5 times last year’s total). The government has agreed improved intelligence exchange with three Balkan countries and has pledged £150 million for the proposed Border Security Command.
Within the Home Office It is suggested that there is some doubt as to how the new Command will work. Lizzie Dearden in the i reports that the fear is that the more the authorities clamp down the more risky the methods used by migrants and that a new approach is the best solution. Nevertheless, the Home Office is recruiting a head for the proposed National Returns Progression Command, a body intended to take control of deporting unsuccessful applicants for asylum status.
There has been much concern about the use of the term “illegal arrival” as per the 2022 Nationality and Borders Act. Anyone guilty of “facilitation” (which includes steering a boat) is liable to up to life imprisonment, and cases have been reported of this happening. Since the Act came into force there have been 471 arrests, 233 of them for taking the tiller.
An aspect of the difficulties within the system is the lack of available legal aid. The Joint Council on the Welfare of Immigrants is urging a reform of the legal aid system, arguing that a functioning system would be much cheaper for the public purse than the present approach.
According to the French charity Utopia 56 there are still some 2,000 migrants on the Channel coast in France.
The Institute for Public Policy Research have observed the need to consider the demand side of the equation, to see why so many are fleeing their countries of origin: ”In order to have an effective response you need to go beyond enforcement.”
Elsewhere possible solutions to the problem are being considered. In Switzerland, since 2019 a new approach has been tried: the main aim is to target a total of 140 days for the complete processing of applications, while not cutting corners. The three critical issues are:
1. to have enough decision makers
2. fast streaming easier cases and moving more difficult ones to a different process and
3. ensuring access to lawyers.
Meanwhile in Spain a more friendly attitude to arrivals is being pursued, both for the economy and to allow family reunions. The Spanish government is opposed to what it terms “Melonisation”, the Italian plan to offload migrant processing to Albania.
Human Rights Watch have a piece noting that discerning the popular attitude towards refugees very much depends on the question asked. People are more sympathetic when it is phrased in terms of what would happen to deported asylum seekers rather than immigrant numbers arriving here.
Finally, a success story of an “illegal” migrant:
An immigration lawyer reviews Paddington in Peru: A very British bear – Free Movement
Andrew Hemming
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We need to #StopCopCity but this #Surveillance is coming for us all unless we do something about it.
What are we going to do about it?
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-tangle-cobwebs/
#TVAC #Texas #DPS #Immingration #ICE #Police #PoliceState #ACAB
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