Home Office Policy Under Review After Trafficking Victim Unlawfully Detained Each year, hundreds of victims of trafficking and other forms of modern slavery are detained under the UK’s hostile detention policy – despite this being...
Immigration Bill passes through Parliament, despite COVID-19 concerns The Conservative government is pushing forward with ending Freedom of Movement with an updated Immigration Bill presented to parliament that was passed today with a...
Dan Fisher, editor-in-chief of Uncommon Ground Media, unpicks the isolationist approach adopted by Western countries in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, whereby governments have focused primarily on protecting those within their own borders. Few...
Migrants arriving in the UK now face quarantine for 14 days The UK Government has now said that all those arriving in the UK via an airport must quarantine at a private residence for 14 days, starting from June due to the Coronavirus...
Boats Carrying Asylum Seekers Intercepted During Bank Holiday in the UK Over the bank holiday weekend, around 140 boats carrying asylum seekers and migrants were intercepted in the English Channel. A spike in the number of those attempting to...
Unaccompanied child refugees in Greece are finally allowed to reunite with family members in the UK. Child refugees in Greece have been forced into destitution, living in squalor and danger at the best of times – even without COVID-19 as many...
Relocated Asylum Seeker Found Dead in Glasgow Hotel A Syrian asylum seeker has been found dead in a Glasgow hotel after being moved there as part of the Home Office’s COVID-19 response. The asylum seeker’s identity has now been confirmed as Adnan...
The Home Office faces a Legal Battle over a lack of asylum support The UK Home Office has become ensnared in yet another legal battle over the bitterly inadequate lack of support asylum seekers receive. Asylum seekers are suffering under the...
