A wonderful piece on our trip to London by campaigner and journalist Tamirat!👇 northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/fro...

What's happening with working rights? A recent change to migration rules means, from today, skilled professionals seeking asylum have a greater chance to work in the UK - but the fight for real, viable working rights for everyone seeking safety goes on. 🧵 👇

"Change may not happen overnight, but raising our voices and speaking directly to lawmakers is an important step" Read refugee campaigner and journalist Tamirat's brilliant piece in @northwestbylines.co.uk about his experience of lobbying Parliament on cruel settlement changes:

Proposals to conditions under which immigrants can settle here mean uncertainty and hardship for many, we asked MPs to reconsider | Tamirat A. Tsega

Our Government should be ashamed to be doing the work of the Taliban for them, refusing talented women the chance to be educated in safety. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Signing this EDM is one clear way your MP can speak out against appalling new rules that will force people to wait decades for settlement, safety and security. Write to them now and tell them to sign: fightforasylumrights.org/back-edm-2908/

Every effort to increase force, danger and violence at our borders has only increased the power of vile, exploitative people smugglers. Let's stop learning the same lesson again and again and try something that would actually work - safe routes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The pressure is building. Our economy, our families and all of our communities will suffer if we force people into decades of limbo - it's time the Government admits it has got this one wrong. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's good to see more and more MPs showing the courage to say the obvious: trapping people for decades in limbo is bad for all of us. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This time last week, over 500 people marched to Parliament and met with over 100 MPs about the Government's devastating proposed changes to settlement. And we're not stopping here. It's vital we keep up the pressure. Sign the open letter to the Home Secretary. act.praxis.org.uk/open-letter-...

Myranda has fought to build a life in Gateshead. She's forged a community she loves and that loves her. As she says here, forcing her into twenty years of terrifying limbo benefits absolutely no one. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Hostile policies and anti-migrant narratives are making people feel anxious, isolated and unwelcome. @migrantsrights.bsky.social 's Not A Stranger campaign reveals the harm dangerous 'earned settlement' plans are doing - and what YOU can do to challenge them: migrantsrights.org.uk/2026/03/10/e...

🚨 New: Not a Stranger Campaign Report Migrant-led insights on the harms of new immigration proposals that would expand “earned settlement” and deepen precarity for migrants. ✊ Read the report, engage your MP (template letter in the report), and support migrant-led advocacy. buff.ly/lzNg62C

One more example of how the Government's relentless ideological attack on people seeking sanctuary harms all of us. Talented students are denied places they've earned. Universities lose students they'd wanted to recruit. A pointless, cruel, lose-lose.

It's no surprise. Here's one example of why: the grant rate for initial claims from Afghanistan is 34%. The Foreign Office advises against all travel to "volatile" Afghanistan - it's a country we know is unsafe. So why would only 34% of people fleeing it need sanctuary?

Watch refugee campaigners Myranda and Anas tell ITV news how 'earned settlement' plans create a 'nightmare' that robs people of safety. From Parliament to TV news, it's vital that refugee voices are heard and listened to:

📣 Settlement is a right 📣 It's getting harder and harder for Government to ignore the outcry against appalling 'earned settlement' plans - and this week we were proud to be a small part of making that call even louder

"It will be very hard for us to integrate and to try to be part of a community when there is a lot of uncertainty and anxiety around our status, our existence and our livelihood" Brilliant campaigners Omot & Myranda tell the BBC why 'earned settlement' is so dangerous: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

💚THREAD: Yesterday we, alongside many other brilliant organisations, campaign groups and community leaders, travelled from Manchester to London to join the Mass Lobby against the government’s proposed ‘earned settlement’ plans.

Yesterday 100s of people from across the UK came together in Parliament to meet with their MPs about the Govt.'s disastrous earned settlement plans. Together, we shared our concerns directly with 80+ MPs. A massive thank you to everyone who joined & helped make it happen. This is just the start.

"Britain has decided that the girl who fought the Taliban’s agenda, who learned English in secret, who turned down a forced marriage, who won her place, is an asylum risk. Her name is Bahar. She is 18 years old. She did everything we asked of her."

Paving the way for families to lose support if they follow medical advice not to leave the country. The more details emerge about the Government's latest attacks on people seeking sanctuary, the more abhorrent they become.

What will taking away the security of refugee status actually mean for people's lives? Read our brilliant campaign manager, Allan, in The Mirror:

Shame on you Air France. You are forcibly deporting people who came to the UK seeking safety, many fleeing war, persecution and climate breakdown. Stop these cruel deportations, now. Join the boycott of Air France until they commit to stopping these inhumane deportations.

"Humane". "Compassionate". "Fair". Just a few of the words the Government has used this week to describe its new asylum rules. This gaslighting won't work. Most people understand that locking up & forcibly deporting children is the opposite of humanity.

This government will stop at nothing to win far-right votes. These are CHILDREN who've seen bombs destroy their homes and loved ones die. They deserve safety - nothing less. This disgusting policy would stain our country's conscience forever. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The government's fresh wave of asylum policy proposals are incoherent and cruel. They risk making our already brutal asylum system impossible to survive, while recreating measures that already exist and failing to establish genuine routes to safety. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Meanwhile, in Germany... www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7000...

So you don't want people coming to the UK by boat? That makes sense - it's incredibly dangerous. So what do you do? Stop safe routes like family reunion. Then ban people from coming to study in case they seek safety. You refuse to make new real safe routes - and drive people to dangerous journeys.

When you close safer pathways, you don’t make desperation disappear, you just reroute it, meaning more people will be forced into taking dangerous journeys to save their lives. Singling out these countries, knowing so many people have already been displaced due to conflict, is especially cruel.

Just so we’re clear: ❌ Travelling clandestinely or in a small boat to seek asylum: wrong ❌ Travelling safely and regularly to seek asylum: also wrong

Paying millions to re-check claims while refusing refugees the basic security they’ need to put down roots, work and rebuild their lives. We'd love the Government to explain how exactly this lose-lose plan is going to make anything better for anyone. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

We all need a home. Take action today to stop newly-granted refugees being made homeless. The government will be making a decision on the future of the 56 day move-on period in the next few weeks. Use Young Roots' online tool to email your MP – it only takes a few minutes!

The Labour Party says it's determined to lift children out of poverty. So why don't children seeking sanctuary count? ✍️ @nbphillips1872.bsky.social

This is what happens when you destroy safe routes. When your only response to people needing to flee their homes is hostility, hostility and more hostility. Even more dangerous journeys. Even more deaths. The only way to stop dangerous journeys is with safe routes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📄NEW: Today, the Home Secretary has announced that from now on, refugees who apply for and are granted asylum in the UK will be given 2.5 years’ temporary refugee status. While there are still many unanswered questions, we have shared what we know so far, and what we think about it in a blog post:

Utterly cruel, pointless and harmful. It does not minimise how bad Conservatives were to say Labour are now the most anti-asylum government in most people's living memory. This prevents people feeling any sense of safety and security after fleeing persecution. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

We all need a home. Take action today to stop newly-granted refugees being made homeless. Gov is deciding on future of 56 day move-on period in the coming weeks. Use @weareyoungroots.bsky.social online tool to email your MP – it only takes a few minutes! action.youngroots.org.uk/make-56-days...

How can you settle, work, or make friends when you might be sent back to the country you've fled after just 30 months? And how will a country already struggling with a huge asylum backlog process millions of new case reviews every year? This heartless anti-refugee policy makes no sense.

Refugees do not choose to come here - by definition, they were forced to flee. Scrapping permanent status will trap refugees in a state of insecurity and fear. This is inhumane cruelty. Doing so says some people deserve fewer rights - and that inequality is law. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Today is a dark day for anyone who believes in sanctuary in the UK. People who've fled war and torture should be able to rebuild their lives in peace and security - not live under a constant threat of removal. We must not stop fighting these appalling anti-refugee laws.

People who aren't safe in their home countries should be able to rebuild their lives in safety and security here. That's the whole point of our asylum system. So why is the asylum grant rate as low as 34% for a clearly unsafe country like Afghanistan?

Do not abandon hope. We can win. 🧡

🟢🟢🟢 1/ The result from Gorton & Denton sends a clear message: voters don't want their leaders to scapegoat & demonise migrants. They want them to focus on real problems that effect their day-to-day lives. We hope this government listens. If they are, we have some suggestions 💡

Spain just granted legal status to undocumented migrants. So what does that mean for us here in the UK? Not that we need to copy and paste Spain's approach. But that our hostile migration system doesn't have to be this way - we can imagine so much better. www.bigissue.com/opinion/spai...

For years, politicians have insisted that scapegoating people seeking sanctuary & throwing migrant communities under the bus is the only way to win election. Yesterday proved what we already knew to be true: people are far kinder and wiser. Our communities stand together. Politicians: take note.

An important reminder that an asylum system that works better for all of us is possible - and it starts with giving people seeking sanctuary the right to work Well done to the amazing Sheffield Lift The Ban group for their brilliant campaigning towards this vital goal 👏

🚨 DONATE TO HELP US STOP THE GOVERNMENT TEARING FAMILIES APART Last year, Refugee Family Reunion - the main safe route for children to reunite with family - was suspended. We’re taking legal action to challenge it. Chip in now: www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-su...

The suspension of family reunion has caused huge amounts of distress and worry for the women we support. Forcibly keeping families apart is cruel. We're pleased to hear that @safepassageintl.bsky.social's challenge will be heard in the high court. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... 1/3

Migration stats are out today, so here's a reminder that fewer people moving to this country, and fewer people being given sanctuary, is nothing to celebrate or strive for. 🧵