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@asylummatters.bsky.social
· May 27
When irresponsible politicians try to divide our communities, what do we do? We speak up, we stand together, we stay strong.
We are, and always will be, an island of solidarity, not of strangers.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
We are, and always will be, an island of solidarity, not of strangers.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
It costs:
💰 £144.98 a night to house someone seeking sanctuary in a run-down repurposed hotel
💰 £132 a night to ship them to an isolated, traumatising military camp
OR
💰 £23.25 a night to let them live in an ordinary, safe, community home
💰 £144.98 a night to house someone seeking sanctuary in a run-down repurposed hotel
💰 £132 a night to ship them to an isolated, traumatising military camp
OR
💰 £23.25 a night to let them live in an ordinary, safe, community home
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
It costs:
💰 £144.98 a night to house someone seeking sanctuary in a run-down repurposed hotel
💰 £132 a night to ship them to an isolated, traumatising military camp
OR
💰 £23.25 a night to let them live in an ordinary, safe, community home
💰 £144.98 a night to house someone seeking sanctuary in a run-down repurposed hotel
💰 £132 a night to ship them to an isolated, traumatising military camp
OR
💰 £23.25 a night to let them live in an ordinary, safe, community home
Quick New Year's resolution for the Government:
Lift 👏 The 👏 Ban 👏
Banning people from work has never made sense. Let's make 2026 the last year anyone is banned from using their skills.
Lift 👏 The 👏 Ban 👏
Banning people from work has never made sense. Let's make 2026 the last year anyone is banned from using their skills.
January 1, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Quick New Year's resolution for the Government:
Lift 👏 The 👏 Ban 👏
Banning people from work has never made sense. Let's make 2026 the last year anyone is banned from using their skills.
Lift 👏 The 👏 Ban 👏
Banning people from work has never made sense. Let's make 2026 the last year anyone is banned from using their skills.
2025 hasn't been an easy year for anyone who cares about refugee and migrant rights.
But when we look back at the amazing things our incredible community of campaigners have done together, we're full of hope for a better year to come.
Together, we can build a better world.
But when we look back at the amazing things our incredible community of campaigners have done together, we're full of hope for a better year to come.
Together, we can build a better world.
December 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
2025 hasn't been an easy year for anyone who cares about refugee and migrant rights.
But when we look back at the amazing things our incredible community of campaigners have done together, we're full of hope for a better year to come.
Together, we can build a better world.
But when we look back at the amazing things our incredible community of campaigners have done together, we're full of hope for a better year to come.
Together, we can build a better world.
Do one simple thing right now to stand against appalling plans to make refugee families wait decades for real safety.
Sign and share this petition, set up by refugees who are fighting these plans every step of the way:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
Sign and share this petition, set up by refugees who are fighting these plans every step of the way:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
Don’t leave refugees in limbo: Scrap the 20-year wait
Imagine living in limbo for 20 years, not knowing if you’ll be allowed to stay in the only home your children have ever known. That is the reality facing refugees under new government proposals. A…
you.38degrees.org.uk
December 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Do one simple thing right now to stand against appalling plans to make refugee families wait decades for real safety.
Sign and share this petition, set up by refugees who are fighting these plans every step of the way:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
Sign and share this petition, set up by refugees who are fighting these plans every step of the way:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
Criminalising people for seeking safety costs lives.
It's time to stop the deaths.
Tell your MP to back calls for accountability and action to protect lives on the French border now:
fightforasylumrights.org/write-to-you...
It's time to stop the deaths.
Tell your MP to back calls for accountability and action to protect lives on the French border now:
fightforasylumrights.org/write-to-you...
December 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Criminalising people for seeking safety costs lives.
It's time to stop the deaths.
Tell your MP to back calls for accountability and action to protect lives on the French border now:
fightforasylumrights.org/write-to-you...
It's time to stop the deaths.
Tell your MP to back calls for accountability and action to protect lives on the French border now:
fightforasylumrights.org/write-to-you...
What do you think our economy could do with an extra £1.6bn?
Let's make 2026 the year we finally #LiftTheBan and let people work - for people seeking safety, for the communities that could benefit from their skills, and for our economy.
Let's make 2026 the year we finally #LiftTheBan and let people work - for people seeking safety, for the communities that could benefit from their skills, and for our economy.
December 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What do you think our economy could do with an extra £1.6bn?
Let's make 2026 the year we finally #LiftTheBan and let people work - for people seeking safety, for the communities that could benefit from their skills, and for our economy.
Let's make 2026 the year we finally #LiftTheBan and let people work - for people seeking safety, for the communities that could benefit from their skills, and for our economy.
One of the most important, and beautifully written, pieces we've read this year.
In her own words, care worker and refugee Riffat explains everything she gives to the UK - and how it feels to have the country she's given so much to turn its back on her.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
In her own words, care worker and refugee Riffat explains everything she gives to the UK - and how it feels to have the country she's given so much to turn its back on her.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
'Migrant workers like me aren't here to take, we just want stability'
Writing for The Mirror, care worker Riffat Fahad says new migration laws are
www.mirror.co.uk
December 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
One of the most important, and beautifully written, pieces we've read this year.
In her own words, care worker and refugee Riffat explains everything she gives to the UK - and how it feels to have the country she's given so much to turn its back on her.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
In her own words, care worker and refugee Riffat explains everything she gives to the UK - and how it feels to have the country she's given so much to turn its back on her.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Every family should be able to celebrate together. But if we don't stop them, planned migration rules could force some refugee families apart forever.
If you're celebrating Christmas with your loved ones today, take 30 seconds now to defend family reunion:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
If you're celebrating Christmas with your loved ones today, take 30 seconds now to defend family reunion:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
December 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Every family should be able to celebrate together. But if we don't stop them, planned migration rules could force some refugee families apart forever.
If you're celebrating Christmas with your loved ones today, take 30 seconds now to defend family reunion:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
If you're celebrating Christmas with your loved ones today, take 30 seconds now to defend family reunion:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
Anticipating tough conversations over the Christmas dinner table?
Coming together with people we care about over a meal can be the perfect opportunity to shift perspectives on asylum & migration issues.
Use City of Sanctuary's amazing guid to approach these conversations with courage & kindness.
Coming together with people we care about over a meal can be the perfect opportunity to shift perspectives on asylum & migration issues.
Use City of Sanctuary's amazing guid to approach these conversations with courage & kindness.
December 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Anticipating tough conversations over the Christmas dinner table?
Coming together with people we care about over a meal can be the perfect opportunity to shift perspectives on asylum & migration issues.
Use City of Sanctuary's amazing guid to approach these conversations with courage & kindness.
Coming together with people we care about over a meal can be the perfect opportunity to shift perspectives on asylum & migration issues.
Use City of Sanctuary's amazing guid to approach these conversations with courage & kindness.
Disappointing to see the Home Secretary refuse to have a cuppa with constituents who wrote to remind her of the proud Brummie welcome that's conspicuously missing from her policies.
The Government must stop ignoring those of us who choose community over hostility
asylummatters.org/2025/12/17/b...
The Government must stop ignoring those of us who choose community over hostility
asylummatters.org/2025/12/17/b...
Brummie letter to Shabana Mahmood - the Home Secretary - Asylum Matters
On 27th October we asked people and organisations to sign an open letter to the newly elected Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, a Birmingham MP to say how we were worried...Continue reading
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December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Disappointing to see the Home Secretary refuse to have a cuppa with constituents who wrote to remind her of the proud Brummie welcome that's conspicuously missing from her policies.
The Government must stop ignoring those of us who choose community over hostility
asylummatters.org/2025/12/17/b...
The Government must stop ignoring those of us who choose community over hostility
asylummatters.org/2025/12/17/b...
Feeling hopeless at our increasingly hostile political climate?
Here's three simple actions you can take right now to stand with refugees and migrants - and hopefully feel a bit more hopeful:
(🔗 Links in the thread below)
Here's three simple actions you can take right now to stand with refugees and migrants - and hopefully feel a bit more hopeful:
(🔗 Links in the thread below)
December 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Feeling hopeless at our increasingly hostile political climate?
Here's three simple actions you can take right now to stand with refugees and migrants - and hopefully feel a bit more hopeful:
(🔗 Links in the thread below)
Here's three simple actions you can take right now to stand with refugees and migrants - and hopefully feel a bit more hopeful:
(🔗 Links in the thread below)
What👏a👏year👏
We're celebrating the incredible first year of the West Midlands Lift The Ban group.
In a year marked by rising hostility nationally, read about how they've showcased joy, community, and a vision of a better asylum system for all of us:
asylummatters.org/2025/12/19/w...
We're celebrating the incredible first year of the West Midlands Lift The Ban group.
In a year marked by rising hostility nationally, read about how they've showcased joy, community, and a vision of a better asylum system for all of us:
asylummatters.org/2025/12/19/w...
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
What👏a👏year👏
We're celebrating the incredible first year of the West Midlands Lift The Ban group.
In a year marked by rising hostility nationally, read about how they've showcased joy, community, and a vision of a better asylum system for all of us:
asylummatters.org/2025/12/19/w...
We're celebrating the incredible first year of the West Midlands Lift The Ban group.
In a year marked by rising hostility nationally, read about how they've showcased joy, community, and a vision of a better asylum system for all of us:
asylummatters.org/2025/12/19/w...
Imagine rebuilding your whole life in 28 days. Finding a home, getting a job, setting up a bank account.
Sounds impossible, right? But that's what the Government expects from newly-recognised refugees.
Sounds impossible, right? But that's what the Government expects from newly-recognised refugees.
December 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Imagine rebuilding your whole life in 28 days. Finding a home, getting a job, setting up a bank account.
Sounds impossible, right? But that's what the Government expects from newly-recognised refugees.
Sounds impossible, right? But that's what the Government expects from newly-recognised refugees.
Reminder: People are dying in Home Office care, and our Government doesn't even report the numbers.
We should not have to fight to learn about these tragedies.
The lives of people seeking sanctuary matter. We will not allow their deaths to be ignored.
We should not have to fight to learn about these tragedies.
The lives of people seeking sanctuary matter. We will not allow their deaths to be ignored.
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Reminder: People are dying in Home Office care, and our Government doesn't even report the numbers.
We should not have to fight to learn about these tragedies.
The lives of people seeking sanctuary matter. We will not allow their deaths to be ignored.
We should not have to fight to learn about these tragedies.
The lives of people seeking sanctuary matter. We will not allow their deaths to be ignored.
Plans to make people wait decades for settlement are terrifying, dangerous - and preventable.
We don't have to let hostility win. One simple thing you can do right now is support this petition, set up by refugees who are determined to fight these plans:
asylummatters.org/2025/12/18/n...
We don't have to let hostility win. One simple thing you can do right now is support this petition, set up by refugees who are determined to fight these plans:
asylummatters.org/2025/12/18/n...
December 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Plans to make people wait decades for settlement are terrifying, dangerous - and preventable.
We don't have to let hostility win. One simple thing you can do right now is support this petition, set up by refugees who are determined to fight these plans:
asylummatters.org/2025/12/18/n...
We don't have to let hostility win. One simple thing you can do right now is support this petition, set up by refugees who are determined to fight these plans:
asylummatters.org/2025/12/18/n...
Violence, terror and death. That's the reality facing far too many people on the France/UK border.
The UK needs to understand its role in funding this violence - so we can stop it.
Tell your MP to back calls for an inquiry and an end to criminalisation:
fightforasylumrights.org/write-to-you...
The UK needs to understand its role in funding this violence - so we can stop it.
Tell your MP to back calls for an inquiry and an end to criminalisation:
fightforasylumrights.org/write-to-you...
December 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Violence, terror and death. That's the reality facing far too many people on the France/UK border.
The UK needs to understand its role in funding this violence - so we can stop it.
Tell your MP to back calls for an inquiry and an end to criminalisation:
fightforasylumrights.org/write-to-you...
The UK needs to understand its role in funding this violence - so we can stop it.
Tell your MP to back calls for an inquiry and an end to criminalisation:
fightforasylumrights.org/write-to-you...
We've got a very simple message this International Migrants Day.
Migration is a basic part of the human experience, and all of our lives would be worse without it.
Migration is a basic part of the human experience, and all of our lives would be worse without it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We've got a very simple message this International Migrants Day.
Migration is a basic part of the human experience, and all of our lives would be worse without it.
Migration is a basic part of the human experience, and all of our lives would be worse without it.
This #InternationalMigrantsDay, newcomers to the UK are living under threat of dangerous rule changes that could force them to wait decades to settle safely.
If you believe in welcome, take a moment to sign the petition against the plans:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
If you believe in welcome, take a moment to sign the petition against the plans:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
December 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This #InternationalMigrantsDay, newcomers to the UK are living under threat of dangerous rule changes that could force them to wait decades to settle safely.
If you believe in welcome, take a moment to sign the petition against the plans:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
If you believe in welcome, take a moment to sign the petition against the plans:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
Reposted by Asylum Matters
'Unsafe, isolated, unwelcome'
This is how so many refugees & other migrants are feeling right now.
But these changes can be stopped.
One simple thing anyone can do is sign this petition, from a group of refugees determined to defeat these anti-refugee plans:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
This is how so many refugees & other migrants are feeling right now.
But these changes can be stopped.
One simple thing anyone can do is sign this petition, from a group of refugees determined to defeat these anti-refugee plans:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
'Unsafe, isolated, unwelcome'
This is how so many refugees & other migrants are feeling right now.
But these changes can be stopped.
One simple thing anyone can do is sign this petition, from a group of refugees determined to defeat these anti-refugee plans:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
This is how so many refugees & other migrants are feeling right now.
But these changes can be stopped.
One simple thing anyone can do is sign this petition, from a group of refugees determined to defeat these anti-refugee plans:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
'Unsafe, isolated, unwelcome'
This is how so many refugees & other migrants are feeling right now.
But these changes can be stopped.
One simple thing anyone can do is sign this petition, from a group of refugees determined to defeat these anti-refugee plans:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
This is how so many refugees & other migrants are feeling right now.
But these changes can be stopped.
One simple thing anyone can do is sign this petition, from a group of refugees determined to defeat these anti-refugee plans:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
'Unsafe, isolated, unwelcome'
This is how so many refugees & other migrants are feeling right now.
But these changes can be stopped.
One simple thing anyone can do is sign this petition, from a group of refugees determined to defeat these anti-refugee plans:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
This is how so many refugees & other migrants are feeling right now.
But these changes can be stopped.
One simple thing anyone can do is sign this petition, from a group of refugees determined to defeat these anti-refugee plans:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
Reposted by Asylum Matters
1/🧵📣NEW STATEMENT
Members of the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have shared a new statement responding to recent changes to the asylum system and how these plans make them feel as people who came to the UK seeking safety.
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Members of the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have shared a new statement responding to recent changes to the asylum system and how these plans make them feel as people who came to the UK seeking safety.
Share on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DSXLsi3jZI...
December 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
1/🧵📣NEW STATEMENT
Members of the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have shared a new statement responding to recent changes to the asylum system and how these plans make them feel as people who came to the UK seeking safety.
Share on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DSXLsi3jZI...
Members of the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have shared a new statement responding to recent changes to the asylum system and how these plans make them feel as people who came to the UK seeking safety.
Share on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DSXLsi3jZI...
If you live in the UK, your taxpayer money is being used to fund terrifying violence in France.
We deserve real information about the UK's role in this violence, and an end to dangerous criminalisation
Tell your MP to sign the motion now 👇
fightforasylumrights.org/write-to-you...
We deserve real information about the UK's role in this violence, and an end to dangerous criminalisation
Tell your MP to sign the motion now 👇
fightforasylumrights.org/write-to-you...
December 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
If you live in the UK, your taxpayer money is being used to fund terrifying violence in France.
We deserve real information about the UK's role in this violence, and an end to dangerous criminalisation
Tell your MP to sign the motion now 👇
fightforasylumrights.org/write-to-you...
We deserve real information about the UK's role in this violence, and an end to dangerous criminalisation
Tell your MP to sign the motion now 👇
fightforasylumrights.org/write-to-you...
Reposted by Asylum Matters
Last week, I hosted an event in Parliament about violence at the UK-France border. @asylummatters.bsky.social, Humans for Rights Network, Project Play and others shared reports of horrifying state neglect and violence, including towards children.
December 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Last week, I hosted an event in Parliament about violence at the UK-France border. @asylummatters.bsky.social, Humans for Rights Network, Project Play and others shared reports of horrifying state neglect and violence, including towards children.
No one should have to wait decades to feel safe.
A group of refugees who faced "nightmares" when they heard about dangerous proposed changes to migration rules have set up this petition against the plans.
Please sign and share it now:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
A group of refugees who faced "nightmares" when they heard about dangerous proposed changes to migration rules have set up this petition against the plans.
Please sign and share it now:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
December 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
No one should have to wait decades to feel safe.
A group of refugees who faced "nightmares" when they heard about dangerous proposed changes to migration rules have set up this petition against the plans.
Please sign and share it now:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
A group of refugees who faced "nightmares" when they heard about dangerous proposed changes to migration rules have set up this petition against the plans.
Please sign and share it now:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
Lift 👏 The 👏 Ban 👏
Banning people from work is so absurd, even this frog knows it doesn't make sense.
Fantastic to see people - and frogs - mobilising in the Home Secretary's constituency to demand an end to cruel extended settlement plans, and equal work & housing rights for migrants.
Banning people from work is so absurd, even this frog knows it doesn't make sense.
Fantastic to see people - and frogs - mobilising in the Home Secretary's constituency to demand an end to cruel extended settlement plans, and equal work & housing rights for migrants.
December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Lift 👏 The 👏 Ban 👏
Banning people from work is so absurd, even this frog knows it doesn't make sense.
Fantastic to see people - and frogs - mobilising in the Home Secretary's constituency to demand an end to cruel extended settlement plans, and equal work & housing rights for migrants.
Banning people from work is so absurd, even this frog knows it doesn't make sense.
Fantastic to see people - and frogs - mobilising in the Home Secretary's constituency to demand an end to cruel extended settlement plans, and equal work & housing rights for migrants.