Author: Elisa

Each year in the UK 27,000 people are locked up indefinitely and without trial for the purpose of immigration control. If this were to happen to a British citizen in another country, there would be righteous anger and condemnation, yet here in the UK it remains hidden and overlooked.
Immigration detention disproportionately affects the most vulnerable people in our society like people with poor mental or physical health and victims of domestic violence, trafficking, torture and sexual abuse.
The Home Office is allowed to use immigration detention but only as a last resort if they are trying to deport someone. In reality it is used routinely and the majority of people who are detained are eventually released back into the community after much needless suffering.
This March a parliament’s Home Affairs Select Committee condemned the "careless and cavalier" approach of the Home Office and raised serious concerns about a catalogue of failings leading to rising self-harm and suicide in detention centres.
"The Home Office has utterly failed in its responsibility to oversee the safe and humane detention of individuals in the UK, that too often it does not follow its own policy and guidance, and that a series of safeguarding and case-working failures have led to people being wrongfully detained, held in immigration when they are vulnerable and unnecessarily detained for too long."
BID has been helping people exercise their right to liberty alongside campaigning for the end of Immigration detention for the past 20 years.
Last year it supported 5,941 people to fight for their freedom. We are hoping to raise £______ to help BID continue to provide free legal advice and representation to people in detention in the UK.
Please give generously to this vitally important cause! You can find out more information about immigration detention and BIDs work on their website www.biduk.org.

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