Thoughts and prayers to this government’s humanity. You cannot unite a country by abandoning humanity. When governments other and dehumanise people, they don’t heal divisions — they deepen them, and in the process dehumanise themselves.

These policies put lives at risk — both those on the move & those already here. They make people less safe, fuel exploitation & guarantee more suffering. The government must stop the harm it is creating & overseeing. It has lost its humanity, but it is not too late to regain it.

Imposing visa penalties on countries that don’t ‘co-operate’ with the UK’s hostile and racist immigration policies exposes imperial arrogance. The UK preaches ‘sovereignty’ while punishing nations it colonised and invaded. Migration is global — but power isn’t shared equally.

Regularise rejects the narrative of ‘failed asylum seekers.’ People are failed by an asylum system built on hostility and exclusion, not support or compassion. Scaling up removals in a system that already gets so much wrong only deepens state violence and increases harm.

Framing families as creating ‘perverse incentives’ is dangerous. Parents don’t risk their lives/their children’s lives for loopholes — they do it for safety & opportunity. Removing support creates harm. Millions of Europeans moved to Americas seeking the same safety & opportunity

If undocumented peope & asylum seekers were allowed to work, they wouldn’t be forced into the shadows. Banning people from working and then criminalising them for trying to survive creates the very exploitation the government claims to oppose. Raids don’t solve it — rights do.

Framing UK asylum support as ‘generous’ distorts reality. People survive on minimal allowances — often between £9 and £49 per week — in unstable accommodation and without the right to work. It’s not generosity, it’s the bare minimum to prevent destitution.

There’s little evidence for the ‘pull factor.’ It’s an old myth used to justify policies that target racialised migrants. People move for safety, stability & opportunity — not to exploit systems. Cruelty won’t deter people in desperate situations; it only reveals systemic racism.

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That’s why we’re calling for an end to immigration raids, and for real, transformative justice through accessible and affordable regularisation — a simple administrative process to grant status and uphold rights.

This is where Regularise comes in — not with hashtags or gestures, but real solutions.

Led by lived experience, grounded in evidence, backed by global data.

To bring hundreds of thousands out of exploitation, fear & daily threats of raids, detention, and forced removal.

Meanwhile, too many are still more focused on symbolic gestures than on real solutions — solutions that could bring people out of a situation where they risk detention simply for working, & removal simply for surviving.

And now, a new wave of hostility is here.

Since the Labour government came to power, immigration raids have increased drastically.

In places like Birmingham, they’ve risen by over 80% — and the same can probably be said for many other parts of the UK.

This is state terror.

The hostile environment doesn’t make most people “go home.”

It pushes people deeper into the shadows, and keeps them there for longer.

It expands the population of people who can be exploited, abused — or even enslaved — simply for lacking the right paperwork.

Undocumented people aren’t strangers — they are care workers, builders, parents, neighbours.

Most have lived here for over 5, 10, even 15 years.

The UK is home.

With speakers from Regularise, Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social and Praxis @praxisprojects.bsky.social sharing powerful testimonies, analyses and solutions.

Meanwhile, Labour’s policies — including plans to make it harder to qualify for Indefinite Leave to Remain (settlement) & citizenship — are also racist.

So too are their current practices: denying people the right to work, rent a home, and detaining & deporting undocumented people whose home is UK