South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group
@symaag.bsky.social
We take action for all migrants' rights and against racism.
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Join us for a full day of mobilisation at the University of Sheffield on 11/11/2025 from 11am to 4pm (no need to register)
Programme and more information here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
Programme and more information here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Join us for a full day of mobilisation at the University of Sheffield on 11/11/2025 from 11am to 4pm (no need to register)
Programme and more information here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
Programme and more information here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Join us
🏛️Manchester Central Library M2 5PD
📅Friday 7 November
🕛12-3pm
to discuss what sanctuary looks like for people fleeing persecution.
How can today's UK Cities of Sanctuary resist this growing hostile environment?
racearchive.org.uk/sanctuary-no...
🏛️Manchester Central Library M2 5PD
📅Friday 7 November
🕛12-3pm
to discuss what sanctuary looks like for people fleeing persecution.
How can today's UK Cities of Sanctuary resist this growing hostile environment?
racearchive.org.uk/sanctuary-no...
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Join us
🏛️Manchester Central Library M2 5PD
📅Friday 7 November
🕛12-3pm
to discuss what sanctuary looks like for people fleeing persecution.
How can today's UK Cities of Sanctuary resist this growing hostile environment?
racearchive.org.uk/sanctuary-no...
🏛️Manchester Central Library M2 5PD
📅Friday 7 November
🕛12-3pm
to discuss what sanctuary looks like for people fleeing persecution.
How can today's UK Cities of Sanctuary resist this growing hostile environment?
racearchive.org.uk/sanctuary-no...
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3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward
The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.
metro.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
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DATE FOR THE DIARY! Public debrief on Fri 31 for National Day of Solidarity event to end Immigration Detention. #MigrationIsLife #NoOneIsIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall. Please spread the word. RTs welcome @notohassockfield.bsky.social @symaag.bsky.social ow.ly/GCSy50Xkhze
October 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
DATE FOR THE DIARY! Public debrief on Fri 31 for National Day of Solidarity event to end Immigration Detention. #MigrationIsLife #NoOneIsIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall. Please spread the word. RTs welcome @notohassockfield.bsky.social @symaag.bsky.social ow.ly/GCSy50Xkhze
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1)Friday round up -With thanks to Chronicle Live #NorthEast who helped amplify our National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention ow.ly/BNGe50XhBJh @notohassockfield.bsky.social @symaag.bsky.social @simone001.bsky.social @4Wings1 #TheseWallsMustFall #MigrationsisLife #NoOneisIllegal
October 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
1)Friday round up -With thanks to Chronicle Live #NorthEast who helped amplify our National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention ow.ly/BNGe50XhBJh @notohassockfield.bsky.social @symaag.bsky.social @simone001.bsky.social @4Wings1 #TheseWallsMustFall #MigrationsisLife #NoOneisIllegal
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“The protest was vibrant, peaceful & loud. We made sure that the women imprisoned in Derwentside know that they are not forgotten"Dr Helen Groom @notohassockfield.bsky.social for National Day of Solidarity #MigrationIsLife #NoOneIsIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall #DignityNotDetention @symaag.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
“The protest was vibrant, peaceful & loud. We made sure that the women imprisoned in Derwentside know that they are not forgotten"Dr Helen Groom @notohassockfield.bsky.social for National Day of Solidarity #MigrationIsLife #NoOneIsIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall #DignityNotDetention @symaag.bsky.social
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Despite the documented harms of detention, which the Government has recognised, detention continues to exist.
We're campaigning:
1️⃣To shut down Derwentside - the main detention centre for women - and the small units for women at other sites.
5/🧵
We're campaigning:
1️⃣To shut down Derwentside - the main detention centre for women - and the small units for women at other sites.
5/🧵
October 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Despite the documented harms of detention, which the Government has recognised, detention continues to exist.
We're campaigning:
1️⃣To shut down Derwentside - the main detention centre for women - and the small units for women at other sites.
5/🧵
We're campaigning:
1️⃣To shut down Derwentside - the main detention centre for women - and the small units for women at other sites.
5/🧵
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The demonstration took place took place on Saturday outside the Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre
Campaigners protest outside North East immigration detention centre
Campaigners protest outside North East immigration detention centre
www.chroniclelive.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The demonstration took place took place on Saturday outside the Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre
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They are saying they're sending me home, but #Liverpool is my home says #Derwentside IRC detainee buff.ly/2G0GuPp #NotoHassockfield
October 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
They are saying they're sending me home, but #Liverpool is my home says #Derwentside IRC detainee buff.ly/2G0GuPp #NotoHassockfield
Last few tickets left for Sheffield coach here⬇️
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October 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Last few tickets left for Sheffield coach here⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/national-d...
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📣URGENT
We are sharing this urgent call to action for Arjeta, a much-loved member of her Liverpool community.
She has been served with a deportation order for tomorrow - please share her story + support her campaign.
Donate to the legal fund: www.gofundme.com/f/help-free-...
Sign the petition:
We are sharing this urgent call to action for Arjeta, a much-loved member of her Liverpool community.
She has been served with a deportation order for tomorrow - please share her story + support her campaign.
Donate to the legal fund: www.gofundme.com/f/help-free-...
Sign the petition:
October 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
📣URGENT
We are sharing this urgent call to action for Arjeta, a much-loved member of her Liverpool community.
She has been served with a deportation order for tomorrow - please share her story + support her campaign.
Donate to the legal fund: www.gofundme.com/f/help-free-...
Sign the petition:
We are sharing this urgent call to action for Arjeta, a much-loved member of her Liverpool community.
She has been served with a deportation order for tomorrow - please share her story + support her campaign.
Donate to the legal fund: www.gofundme.com/f/help-free-...
Sign the petition:
Protesting with us at Hassockfield/Derwentside detention centre on Saturday 18th?
Join the online safety briefing this Wednesday
righttoremain.org.uk/weds-15-oct-...
#DignityNotDetention
Join the online safety briefing this Wednesday
righttoremain.org.uk/weds-15-oct-...
#DignityNotDetention
Weds 15 Oct, 7pm - 8.30pm: online safety briefing for the Derwentside demo (18 Oct)
Planning to join the Derwentside demo as part of the National Day of Solidarity 2025? Join our online safety meeting, 15 October, 7pm - 8.30pm. Register here!
righttoremain.org.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Protesting with us at Hassockfield/Derwentside detention centre on Saturday 18th?
Join the online safety briefing this Wednesday
righttoremain.org.uk/weds-15-oct-...
#DignityNotDetention
Join the online safety briefing this Wednesday
righttoremain.org.uk/weds-15-oct-...
#DignityNotDetention
Come with us to Hassockfield immigration detention centre October 18th to show solidarity with the women detained there.
Close #Hassockfield and all detention centres.
Book your place on the Sheffield coach🔽
www.eventbrite.com/e/national-d...
#DignityNotDetention #SetHerFree #TheseWallsMustFall
Close #Hassockfield and all detention centres.
Book your place on the Sheffield coach🔽
www.eventbrite.com/e/national-d...
#DignityNotDetention #SetHerFree #TheseWallsMustFall
National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention, 18 October 2025
South Yorkshire Migratiion & Asylun Action Group-SYMAAG join of the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention on 18.10.25.
www.eventbrite.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Come with us to Hassockfield immigration detention centre October 18th to show solidarity with the women detained there.
Close #Hassockfield and all detention centres.
Book your place on the Sheffield coach🔽
www.eventbrite.com/e/national-d...
#DignityNotDetention #SetHerFree #TheseWallsMustFall
Close #Hassockfield and all detention centres.
Book your place on the Sheffield coach🔽
www.eventbrite.com/e/national-d...
#DignityNotDetention #SetHerFree #TheseWallsMustFall
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"At No To Hassockfield we remain steadfast in our campaign to end the cruel practice of detention. We urge all decent citizens to join us" | North East Bylines
Support for women detained at Derwentside Immigration Centre continues
"At No To Hassockfield we remain steadfast in our campaign to end the cruel practice of detention. We urge all decent citizens to join us"
northeastbylines.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"At No To Hassockfield we remain steadfast in our campaign to end the cruel practice of detention. We urge all decent citizens to join us" | North East Bylines
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🚨Join us on Wed 17 Sep on Zoom, from 10am – 12.30pm for our Knowledge is Power workshop. If you are supporting people seeking asylum navigate the system, or want to do so, this is a great intro session. 🚨
righttoremain.org.uk/17-september...
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September 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🚨Join us on Wed 17 Sep on Zoom, from 10am – 12.30pm for our Knowledge is Power workshop. If you are supporting people seeking asylum navigate the system, or want to do so, this is a great intro session. 🚨
righttoremain.org.uk/17-september...
righttoremain.org.uk/17-september...
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September 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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This was inevitably going to happen, wasn’t it? Close the hotels and the lEgiTiMaTe cOnCeRns become about asylum seekers living in actual houses. Because it was never about the hotels, as such.
While the BBC listens attentively, nods vigorously and puts it at the top of its website.
While the BBC listens attentively, nods vigorously and puts it at the top of its website.
'I'm angry. It's not right' - locals want asylum hotels shut, but are shared houses the answer?
The BBC's UK editor, Ed Thomas, meets local people and asylum seekers in two towns in north-west England.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This was inevitably going to happen, wasn’t it? Close the hotels and the lEgiTiMaTe cOnCeRns become about asylum seekers living in actual houses. Because it was never about the hotels, as such.
While the BBC listens attentively, nods vigorously and puts it at the top of its website.
While the BBC listens attentively, nods vigorously and puts it at the top of its website.
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🧨🧨Today, Sheffield sent the racists home!🧨🧨
300 antifacists gathered to prevent the far-right from harassing refugees. The few fascists who made it out of the house quickly dispersed after seeing our mobilisation.
sheffieldcarf.org/2025/09/waitin…
300 antifacists gathered to prevent the far-right from harassing refugees. The few fascists who made it out of the house quickly dispersed after seeing our mobilisation.
sheffieldcarf.org/2025/09/waitin…
September 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
🧨🧨Today, Sheffield sent the racists home!🧨🧨
300 antifacists gathered to prevent the far-right from harassing refugees. The few fascists who made it out of the house quickly dispersed after seeing our mobilisation.
sheffieldcarf.org/2025/09/waitin…
300 antifacists gathered to prevent the far-right from harassing refugees. The few fascists who made it out of the house quickly dispersed after seeing our mobilisation.
sheffieldcarf.org/2025/09/waitin…
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Sheffield against the hotel botherers.
September 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Sheffield against the hotel botherers.
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2010s: Tories want to look tough on migrants, so they vow to put them in military barracks
2020: Napier barracks opens
2021: Conditions at Napier strongly criticised as unsuitable for human beings
Mar 2025: Closure of Napier announces.
Sep 6th: Farage proposes using barracks:
Today ...
2020: Napier barracks opens
2021: Conditions at Napier strongly criticised as unsuitable for human beings
Mar 2025: Closure of Napier announces.
Sep 6th: Farage proposes using barracks:
Today ...
September 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
2010s: Tories want to look tough on migrants, so they vow to put them in military barracks
2020: Napier barracks opens
2021: Conditions at Napier strongly criticised as unsuitable for human beings
Mar 2025: Closure of Napier announces.
Sep 6th: Farage proposes using barracks:
Today ...
2020: Napier barracks opens
2021: Conditions at Napier strongly criticised as unsuitable for human beings
Mar 2025: Closure of Napier announces.
Sep 6th: Farage proposes using barracks:
Today ...
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🚨12pm This Saturday🚨
Sheffield S1 2AB
Details TBA
Sheffield S1 2AB
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September 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
🚨12pm This Saturday🚨
Sheffield S1 2AB
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Sheffield S1 2AB
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Scrap the Surcharge! ❌
Borders in our health service take many forms:
▪️ The charging regulations, which see people charged up to 150% of the cost of secondary care
▪️ Identity checks
▪️ Data sharing between the NHS + Home Office
And the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) 🧵
Borders in our health service take many forms:
▪️ The charging regulations, which see people charged up to 150% of the cost of secondary care
▪️ Identity checks
▪️ Data sharing between the NHS + Home Office
And the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) 🧵
September 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Scrap the Surcharge! ❌
Borders in our health service take many forms:
▪️ The charging regulations, which see people charged up to 150% of the cost of secondary care
▪️ Identity checks
▪️ Data sharing between the NHS + Home Office
And the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) 🧵
Borders in our health service take many forms:
▪️ The charging regulations, which see people charged up to 150% of the cost of secondary care
▪️ Identity checks
▪️ Data sharing between the NHS + Home Office
And the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) 🧵
52 years after #Chile coup.
This year's theme is the fight for Truth, Justice and Memory, a demand by the Chilean people for the heinous crimes committed following the coup in 1973 and during the 2019 social unrest.
✊Join us Sat 13th Sept 1pm @ Nursery Street Pocket Park Sheffield
This year's theme is the fight for Truth, Justice and Memory, a demand by the Chilean people for the heinous crimes committed following the coup in 1973 and during the 2019 social unrest.
✊Join us Sat 13th Sept 1pm @ Nursery Street Pocket Park Sheffield
September 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
52 years after #Chile coup.
This year's theme is the fight for Truth, Justice and Memory, a demand by the Chilean people for the heinous crimes committed following the coup in 1973 and during the 2019 social unrest.
✊Join us Sat 13th Sept 1pm @ Nursery Street Pocket Park Sheffield
This year's theme is the fight for Truth, Justice and Memory, a demand by the Chilean people for the heinous crimes committed following the coup in 1973 and during the 2019 social unrest.
✊Join us Sat 13th Sept 1pm @ Nursery Street Pocket Park Sheffield
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Well, Yvette, maybe refugees are applying for family reunification as soon as they can because 1) they've spent ages waiting for status and miss their kids; 2) it takes ages for reunification applications to be approved; and 3) their kids are ineligible once they turn 18 www.gov.uk/government/s...
Strengthening border security and reforms to the asylum system
Home Secretary statement on actions the government is taking with France to strengthen border security and reforms to the asylum system.
www.gov.uk
September 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Well, Yvette, maybe refugees are applying for family reunification as soon as they can because 1) they've spent ages waiting for status and miss their kids; 2) it takes ages for reunification applications to be approved; and 3) their kids are ineligible once they turn 18 www.gov.uk/government/s...