England Children’s Commissioner Condemns Detention
Posted on April 27, 2009
The Children’s Commissioner for England has condemned the detention of thousands of children of failed asylum seekers.
We are particularly concerned at what appear at times to be significant discrepancies between policy guidance and what happens in practice to children, young people and families during arrest, transportation and detention.
Phil Woolas, fresh from defending the Realm from hordes of invading, freeloading Gurkhas, attempted to repudiate the criticism, intimating to television news that asylum seekers are devious miscreants, unwilling to accept the de facto death sentences often imposed by the government’s unjust, unfair and racist deportation regime, and that the concentration of unwanted migrants and detention of children is for their own good and the good of their families.
The Children’s Commissioner is wrong to call for ‘community-based alternatives’ before deportation. The real ‘community-based alternative’ is jobs and housing for all, not just for those with the approved skin colour or passport or a fat bank account.
End detention. End deportations. No One Is Illegal.
