Today the Resistance Kitchen joined Migrants Organise and Reclaim Croydon outside the new Home Office building in Ruskin Square in Croydon as part of the campaign to Abolish Reporting for migrants.
Every month we set up an information stall outside the Home Office to help asylum seekers challenge the draconian ‘reporting immigration bail conditions’ imposed on them.
Asylum seekers have to report to a designated Home Office reporting centre, often every week, for years whilst they wait the outcome of their asylum application. Every reporting appointment carries the risk of being randomly disappeared to a detention centre indefinitely, and every visit brings fear, worry and anxiety. Reporting conditions amount to unfair, unjust and unnecessary harassment of migrants, and must be abolished.
The Abolish Reporting Campaign was launched in March 2021, by Migrants Organise and These Walls Must Fall. It is part of a wider campaign to abolish the surveillance of migrants.
Reporting For Ten Years
Today we meet a person who has had to report to the Home Office every week for the last 10 years. Once he was disappeared to a detention centre for over a year. Recently his reporting conditions have changed to every two weeks after he was suicidal at having to report every week.
The toll on one’s mental health of living in limbo for10 years not knowing how many more year to go – often without a right to work, no access to services, having to live on £8 a week that may have to include travel costs to come every week to report, to what might be your last day of ‘freedom’ before being abducted and caged in a detention centre, perhaps leading to deportation, is immeasurable. Its a deliberate part of successive governments policy of creating a hostile environment for asylum seekers so they will ‘voluntarily’ leave the country, absolving the government of its legal responsibilities under international law.
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