“For too long we have seen how 'hostile environment' policies, expanded under the last government, put women and girls at greater risk of violence and abuse and deny their right to safety." www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

This is a scary announcement by Reform, 1 step away from so-called remigration. The government must call this out for what it is: racism. Anything less, such as talking about how it won't work in practical terms, is a moral failure & effectively validates these views. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is what scapegoating of people seeking safety by mainstream parties leads to. Not placating anti-migrant extremists, but egging them on. This terrifying plan to attack our friends & neighbours shows why we must keep fighting for the rights of all migrants. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Reminder: no one should be living in a converted hotel while waiting for an asylum decision. Successive governments, not individual refugees, are to blame for the crisis in asylum accommodation - here's how our leaders could close the hotels:

Today, a human being was robbed of their right to ask for safety. We don't know why they risked their life to reach the UK - but we know the very least they deserved was a fair hearing. We know they didn't deserve to be punished for using the only route available to them.

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'Lurching from one ridiculous proposition to another.' That's Keir Starmer talking sense on the last Government's absurd asylum accommodation plans. So why is he now revisiting similar ideas? The PM knows repurposed sites won't work. Can't we leave failed plans in the past?

The last Government's failed experiment in asylum camps cost the taxpayer millions, all while traumatising and isolating torture survivors. Now, Keir Starmer wants to return to this cruel and wasteful plan. We can't go back. #CommunitiesNotCamps

The vast majority of our clients detained under "one in, one out" scheme are survivors of torture and trafficking. Our independent clinicians have visited clients in immigration removal centres and found concerning levels of PTSD and suicidal thoughts www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The '1-in1-out' plan, just like the failed Rwanda plan, is an attack on the human right to seek asylum. It must be stopped. We cannot punish survivors of torture and trafficking for how they arrived in the UK while denying them any safe alternative. www.lbc.co.uk/article/firs...

No, we shouldn't 'surrender the flag'. But far, far more importantly, we must not surrender our policy making. The PM is right to condemn this violence - but he must also stop promoting hostile anti-migrant policies to appease those who spread fear and hatred.

The new '1 in 1 out' plan starts this week. It won't 'stop the boats'. More importantly, it won't stop the deaths. All it will do is send people back into the hands of people smugglers, back to more deadly police violence on French shores. Only safe routes can save lives.

This week, two children died in the Channel. Ten days earlier the ex-Home Secretary suspended refugee family reunions. That means children have no safe way to reach refugee parents. It's hard to see how this will lead to anything other than more children being killed.

📣 The suspension of family reunion could forcibly separate families for years. In the past year, 92% of family reunion visas were for women and children. This cruel move will leave people without any formalised safe routes to reunite with their loved ones. www.context.news/socioeconomi...

Women, men & children seeking sanctuary should not be left in overcrowded hotels for months on end. The answer is not more political theatre or warehousing people on disused military bases.

After 4 days in post, our new Home Secretary has proposed to: ❌House asylum seekers in military barracks ❌Suspend visas for countries that won’t take back refused asylum seekers ❌Change laws on how the ECHR is implemented in the UK Immigration policy should never come at the cost of human rights.

If a policy kills children, it has to change. Our border policies kill children. They have to change Safe routes into the UK are the only way to stop the deaths.

Every day, we work with people from all backgrounds, from people who've lived in the UK their whole lives to those who've just arrived, who work so hard to welcome sanctuary seekers. This is exactly what we hear from them:

📣 Reminder: Refugees welcome, always!

Asylum camps are: ❌ Incredibly expensive ❌ Cruel and dangerous ❌ Wildly unpopular And this Government knows it - that's why Keir Starmer has repeatedly said they should close. So, why exactly are ministers now talking about opening new camps?

The new Home Secretary has a choice: keep trying what predecessors have been for years - or make real change. Stick with scapegoating and expensive cruelty - or save money, save lives and rebuild fractured communities. Here are a few places she could start:

Did you know that thousands of migrants are being forced to wait over ten years until they can permanently settle in the UK? And if this Government has their way, over a million more people will be trapped in this decade-long wait. Spread the word. Share this video now. youtube.com/shorts/WDuan...

Is it groundhog day? In a desperate race to the bottom, the Government now want to warehouse people seeking safety in the UK on military and industrial sites. These are the exact plans this Government condemned when they were in opposition. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Shutting people in ex-military barracks is dangerous, expensive and cruel. So it made sense when this Government said it would close the camps. But this weekend, ministers threatened to open more. It's more re-runs of failed policies instead of the change our asylum system needs.

Letting people seeking asylum work just makes sense. Banning them from work makes no sense at all. Right now, the House of Lords has a crucial opportunity to support working rights - use this easy tool to tell them why they must lift the ban on work: act.refugee-action.org.uk/page/176343/...

📣Speak up NOW for the right to work📣 Banning people from work makes no sense. Right now, the House of Lords has a chance to amend the flawed Asylum Bill to back working rights for people seeking asylum. Use this easy tool to tell a Lord to Lift The Ban: act.refugee-action.org.uk/page/176343/...

🚨The UK has suspended all new Refugee #FamilyReunion applications, one of the few #SafeRoutes for people fleeing. This cruelty keeps families apart. 📢We support our partners calling on the government to restore family reunion & expand safe routes.

Amid relentless political attacks on people seeking sanctuary, and the communities that welcome them, it's easy to feel hopeless. But we still believe that most people would rather live in a community of solidarity, not an island of strangers. #SolidarityNotStrangers

There's so much wrong with this appalling idea. Human beings seeking safety aren't cargo that can be stored in warehouses for the Government's convenience. The Home Secretary should be ashamed to even suggest it.

Warehouses are not homes. Military sites are not safe ❌ We've run clinics at military sites and seen the harm they cause. Forcing people seeking safety into them is inhumane. The Government must clear the asylum backlog and house people in communities to rebuild their lives safely.

Think our asylum system needs to change? Here's a very obvious place to start: stop banning people from work. Lifting the ban would let people seeking safety start rebuilding their lives - and boost our economy by £1.6bn in taxes, savings and spending.

Rising hostility is terrifying for many people who've fled war and persecution, seeking nothing but safety in this country. Our leaders must stop echoing languages that fuels division - and make sure it's keeping people seeking asylum safe.

While much of our media focuses on how many people claim asylum in the UK, there's one number that isn't even counted: The number of people who die while trying to seek sanctuary here. We know our asylum is killing people. Their deaths must not be ignored. #KnowTheirNames

People seeking asylum have so much to offer the UK. So why are these talented, resilient people BANNED from working? Make it make sense. #LiftTheBan

Charities installing panic rooms and fearing for staff safety. This is what happens when certain politicians and parts of our media encourage anger at people seeking safety - instead of working to make a fair asylum system that works better for everyone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We're all angry about asylum hotels. But that anger is being turned against the people forced to live in those hotels - and that's not ok. They only exist because of the failures of the previous Government. Here's how a fairer asylum system would mean no asylum hotels.

"The way that we treat people seeking safety says something about who we are as a country." We told Three Counties Radio why the UK's attitude to people seeking asylum is getting more hostile - and how to get back to the welcome that most of us value. 👇

These groups are the experts on how we combat the awful reality of violence against women and girls: Rape Crisis, Women's Aid, The End Violence Against Women Coalition, and many more. Their warnings are ones we have to listen to. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

"As a woman who looks visibly ‘other’ despite being born in the UK, I can’t quite remember ever feeling so unsafe." This is what giving anti-migrant protesters their way means. Not safety for women and girls - but more threat, more disruption, more danger👇

MPs are encouraging more racist disorder - it's appalling. No one wants people forced to live in converted hotels. But giving in to the demands of violent anti-migrant crowds sets a dangerous precedent. Calling those crowds an 'inspiration' is even worse.

However you arrived, whatever your reason for coming: welcome. Today the Home Office publishes its latest migration stats, which means headline after headline treating people as faceless numbers. We won't forget the people behind the numbers and we won't stop welcoming them.

A reminder: Asylum seekers are in hotels because of a huge application backlog that the gov't must work through. Robert Jenrick - now, bursting with creative solutions - processed applications slowly ***on purpose*** as a deterrent. Here he is, as Immigration Minister two years ago, saying so. ~AA

🚨#NotInOurName We have proudly joined 200 organisations to urge the Government to address the dangerous weaponisation of VAWG being hijacked by an anti-migration agenda. The Government has pledged to halve VAWG, but it cannot be done while refugee women are not protected.

A court just gave these violent demonstrators what they wanted. After weeks of disorder, the Epping hotel won't house people seeking asylum. No one should have to live in hotels. But this sets a terrifying precedent. Government must step up to protect people from more violent demos.

We stand w/ 200+ orgs rejecting weaponising violence against women & girls for anti-migrant agendas. Govt & media fuel racist narratives pitting survivors & migrants against each other. Falsehoods like these don’t keep women safe, they distract from tackling gender-based violence. t.co/50I5sp1kCI

Violence against women & girls is a hugely important issue - but it is being hijacked by people seeking to use women's pain for political gain. We've joined 200 orgs urging the Government to reject this dangerous weaponisation & take urgent action. Read more here 👇 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

"The ethnicity of any perpetrator, or indeed their immigration status, is completely irrelevant" This family have endured the unimaginable, and then seen their pain weaponised for despicable political gain. They should be the ones our Government are listening to.

"I not only speak for myself but for all of the King family when I say that the ethnicity of any perpetrator, or indeed their immigration status, is completely irrelevant." Grandfather of Bebe King www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Here's a story that shouldn't have to exist. Senior MPs are spouting so many lies about newcomers to this country that we need long stories like this to correct them Find out the truth about some of the numbers you might have heard here:👇 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Divisive politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language are letting hate spread. Our leaders must stop fuelling racism and build a country where everyone, no matter where they're from, can feel safe. Proud to be one of the 200+ names on this, from @refugeestogether.bsky.social 👇