Immigration and asylum

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• Leaked briefing paper outlines alternatives to detention for asylum seeking families

  Interactive, 11 Aug 2010:

  Leaked document reveals controversial pilot schemes as part of a review of asylum seeker detention. It proposes 'no-notice removals' which have since been outlawed

• Asylum seekers and the 'big society'

  9 Aug 2010: Spencer Woodcock: Daily, I witness tabloid-reviled refugees giving their time to help the more vulnerable. What a pity it never makes the news

• Coalition's rosy view of constituency size

  9 Aug 2010: Letters: As an MP I see an average of 190 people each month. Of these the vast majority are not on the electoral register and would not even be counted when calculating the size of a constituency

• UK Border Agency investigation finds cause for 'significant concern'

  8 Aug 2010: Whistleblower claimed colleagues expressed anti-immigration views and took pride in refusing asylum applications

• Fund to ease impact of immigration scrapped by stealth

  6 Aug 2010: Government quietly abandons Gordon Brown's £50m pot for councils to ease pressure on housing, schools and hospitals

• Fatal consequences of legal aid changes

  6 Aug 2010: Letters: The death of Osman Rasul should not be viewed as a single tragedy but the result of an immigration system that systematically fails to protect human dignity

• Children in immigration centres face deportation within weeks

  5 Aug 2010:

  Pilot scheme gives families with children facing removal a two-week ultimatum to leave the country voluntarily

• Don't deprive refugees of access to justice

  5 Aug 2010:

  Ayesha Christie: Closure of Refugee and Migrant Justice has left 10,000 asylum seekers without legal representation to fight 'culture of disbelief'

• Campsfield House detainees go on hunger strike

  3 Aug 2010: Immigration centre protest over prolonged detention and treatment

• Two vicars held over suspected sham marriages

  3 Aug 2010: Reverends Brian Shipsides and Elwon John held in east London, in latest sign of nationwide crackdown

• Campsfield detainees go on hunger strike over treatment

  3 Aug 2010: More than 100 at immigration centre refuse evening meals indefinitely after claims of abuse and no prospect of release

• Asylum seekers win new strength to fight after Yarl's Wood hunger strike

  2 Aug 2010: 'We are determined to win justice for the violent and vicious way we were treated,' says mother in family detention centre protest

• French and UK police break up human trafficking ring

  2 Aug 2010: Cross-Channel operation leads to arrest of 26 people suspected of attempting to smuggle hundreds of migrants to Britain

• Immigration must be a bigger part of the reform agenda

  2 Aug 2010: Tim Finch: Current immigration policy smacks of a quick fix. We need a much more comprehensive vision for the next 20 or 30 years

• Immigration minister vows to stop 'abuse' of student visa system

  2 Aug 2010:

  Damian Green to review points-based system after figures show increase in non-EU students

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