Sentences with phrase «on immigration detention centres»

It's hard to report on immigration detention centres.

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A protest which started on Friday at Harmondsworth immigration detention centre has spread to three other institutions, amid signs of nationwide unrest at the deportation process

Taken from their homes in the middle of the night, or in the very early hours of the morning, when immigration enforcement knows they'll be at home, and bundled into a van, then to a detention centre, and then on a plane to a country they never knew.

The government has already been accused of deserting its promise to end the detention of children in immigration centres — a change that would have signaled one of the Lib Dem's few influences on policy and demonstrated that the government was at last sympathetic to the cause of asylum seekers.

«Detention is only supposed to be used when there's no reasonable alternative possible,» Hamilton tells me on the phone from Morton Hall immigration detention centre, where he's been for the last nDetention is only supposed to be used when there's no reasonable alternative possible,» Hamilton tells me on the phone from Morton Hall immigration detention centre, where he's been for the last ndetention centre, where he's been for the last nine days.

ATHENS (Reuters)- Greece opened its first purpose - built detention centre for illegal migrants on Sunday in Athens, a week before a national election where illegal immigration has emerged as a key issue.

Shadow immigration minister Damien Green said: «Until the government gets a grip on the prison overcrowding crisis, the problems will continue to spill over and cause dangerous tensions in immigration detention centres.»

Some 26 asylum seekers escaped from Campsfield House Immigration Detention Centre near Oxford on Saturday after starting a fire to distract staff.

Stepping in at the weekly Commons clash while David Cameron is in the States, Clegg said the government would make an announcement «shortly» on the closure of the controversial immigration detention centre.

Recent examples of our work in discrimination law include suing an immigration detention centre for racial discrimination, challenging the police for stopping and searching people based on race, challenging discriminatory bail conditions applied to people wrongly arrested during the London riots, failing to protect a homosexual prisoner from assault by homophobic inmates and persuading a school to apologise and train relevant staff after it excluded a pupil with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.