News / UK and world by Press Association April 22, 2018, 12:59 pm FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter Theresa May could be accused of racism in the wake of the Windrush immigration scandal, a Labour frontbencher has said. Shadow women and equalities secretary Dawn Butler said the Prime Minister’s policies were delivering “institutionalised racism”. Asked if Mrs May could be accused of racism, Ms Butler told Sky News: “Yes, she is the leader. She is presiding over legislation … discriminating against a whole group of people who came from the Commonwealth, who suffered racism when they came over – the ‘no blacks, no Irish, no dogs’ – and now they are having to relive that trauma all over again because of Theresa May.” Pressed on whether Mrs May was racist, the frontbencher said: “In my own personal opinion, and I’m speaking as myself as Dawn Butler, the … [Read more...] about PM could be accused of racism for immigration stance, shadow cabinet member says
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Immigration agents arrest 27 people in Omaha area during operation at multiple locations Thursday
Federal immigration agents arrested 27 men Thursday from various locations in the Omaha area.All of the men are from Mexico and suspected of being in the country illegally, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement. Shawn Neudauer, an ICE spokesman, said that special agents with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations conducted an operation Thursday at multiple locations in Omaha.Six of the men had minor criminal histories; three of them had previously been deported from the United States.Of those three, one man has been convicted three times for illegally re-entering the U.S. and two others have been deported twice each.The names of the men are not released due to ICE policy.“Since this is an ongoing criminal investigation, no further comment is available,” Neudauer said. … [Read more...] about Immigration agents arrest 27 people in Omaha area during operation at multiple locations Thursday
Justice has spoken: The courts rebuke Trump on immigration
A President who wages war against “sanctuary cities” and increasingly uses Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to round up not only hardened criminals but law-abiding people is getting timely reminders that he doesn’t have nearly as much power as he thinks he has . They’re coming from federal courts — including the man he appointed last year to the highest bench in the land, Supreme Court Justice Neal Gorsuch. Tuesday, Gorsuch cast the deciding vote on rejecting a justification often used to justify deportations for immigrants convicted of felonies. Finding the federal law dictating deportation for those guilty of “a crime of violence” unacceptably vague, Gorsuch wrote: “A government of laws and not of men can never tolerate that arbitrary power.” The Trump doctrine this ain’t. Meanwhile, in Chicago, federal appeals judges trashed demands from Attorney General Jeff Sessions for cities to hand over detained immigrants … [Read more...] about Justice has spoken: The courts rebuke Trump on immigration
May’s immigration policies to blame for Windrush scandal, says Corbyn
News / UK and world by Press Association April 22, 2018, 12:17 am FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter Jeremy Corbyn is accusing Theresa May of being personally responsible for the Windrush generation controversy by setting a deliberately unreachable bar with her “hostile environment” immigration policies. The Labour leader is telling the party’s Welsh conference that “lives have been ripped apart” by the crackdown. Mr Corbyn is set to tell the Llandudno gathering on Sunday: “This week, something rotten at the heart of Government has come to the surface. “The Windrush scandal has exposed how British citizens who came to our country to rebuild it after the war have faced deportation because they couldn’t clear the deliberately unreachable bar set by Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ for migrants. “And it’s not as if they weren’t warned. … [Read more...] about May’s immigration policies to blame for Windrush scandal, says Corbyn
Amber Rudd has defended her secret note to PM vowing to deport more illegal immigrants
HOME Secretary Amber Rudd yesterday defended sending a secret note to the Prime Minister vowing to deport more people. The leaked memo revealed the Home Secretary last year promised No.10 she would give immigration officials more “teeth” to hunt down and deport thousands more illegal immigrants. Ms Rudd had promised to deport 10 per cent more people than Mrs May achieved when Home Secretary – an extra 4,000 a year. She was forced to launch a fightback last night as critics tried to link the note to the Windrush scandal. Her officials insisted it was “essential” to tackle illegal immigration in the UK. The Home Office said it was “wilfully misleading” for anyone to combine the Windrush scandal with deporting illegal migrants. A spokeswoman said: “Illegal immigration impacts the whole of society, putting pressure on taxpayer-funded public services, leaving vulnerable people at the mercy of exploitative employers and landlords. “People … [Read more...] about Amber Rudd has defended her secret note to PM vowing to deport more illegal immigrants