{"id":39272,"date":"2019-02-21T14:14:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T14:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=39272"},"modified":"2020-10-30T13:35:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:35:56","slug":"war-hostile-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/war-hostile-environment","title":{"rendered":"Human rights activists: &#8216;We are at war with this hostile environment&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Since 2010, the policies of Westminster have targeted undocumented people in the UK. Now, stories of human rights abuses are surfacing in Cardiff.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39316\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39316\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_signs_big.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_signs_big.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_signs_big-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_signs_big-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_signs_big-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_signs_big-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39316\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_signs_big.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_signs_big.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_signs_big-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_signs_big-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_signs_big-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_signs_big-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/noscript> Signs outside a courthouse where the Stansted 15 activists were being charged for stoping deportation flights. (Courtesy of Emilie Brown)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A single word in English wasn\u2019t enough for one asylum seeker, who, after escaping her traffickers, went to the police station to ask for help.She was stripped of her clothes, given a paper suit and sent to a jail cell for eight hours without food, where she cried until her nose bled.<\/p>\n<p>She was transferred to a van and passed a piece of paper\u2014 in her own language\u2014 entitling her to a solicitor. It was thirty days before she was released from the detention centre.Through the bureaucratic process of applying for asylum, being denied, and requesting an appeal, this woman had become suicidal while relying on the support of volunteers in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer she was invited by the Home Office to sign a document, where she was arrested again \u2014 \u00a0her application had been denied months before, a fact not shared with her solicitor.\u00a0She was handcuffed and pushed into a van, where she fell on her face and passed out. After a stint in the hospital, she returned to the detention centre.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39288\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39288\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/bristol_mural_big.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/bristol_mural_big.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/bristol_mural_big-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/bristol_mural_big-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39288\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/bristol_mural_big.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/bristol_mural_big.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/bristol_mural_big-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/bristol_mural_big-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript> Disabled asylum seekers composed this mural in Bristol. (Courtesy of disabilitymurals.org.uk)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNobody would believe that this brutality happens here in Cardiff,\u201d said Christine Nelms, as she shared this story with concerned residents at the Butetown community centre last week, where a public forum was held to discuss the government\u2019s hostile environment policy.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2010, when then-Home Office secretary Theresa May articulated her aim \u201cto create, here in Britain, a really hostile environment for illegal immigrants,\u201d \u00a0a number of administrative and legislative measures have made it increasingly difficult for those without documents to remain in the United Kingdom\u2014 riding on the hope that they will voluntarily leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a war,\u201d said Hillary Brown, an immigration lawyer. \u201cWe are at war with this hostile environment, that has tactics to deprive people of their basic human rights to be represented by legally qualified people to make the challenges that need to be made.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39296\" style=\"width: 2309px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39296\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2309\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small.jpg 2309w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2309px) 100vw, 2309px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39296\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2309\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small.jpg 2309w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/selma_james_small-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2309px) 100vw, 2309px\" \/><\/noscript> Selma James (centre) from the Global Women&#8217;s Strike, stands to address attendees at the Butetown community centre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Home Office can detain anyone who does not have the right to reside in the UK, and there are eight detention centres and two short-term holding facilities in the country. Since 2000, their capacity has increased six-fold, with 27,000 people detained in 2017 alone. This has led advocates like Brown to take on cases pro-bono.\u00a0A family living in Cardiff whom Brown acted for had managed to get four of their children to the UK, but had one young daughter who remained behind.<\/p>\n<p>The family managed to fly her to France, and from there to Heathrow airport. When the daughter landed in the United Kingdom, both parents were arrested for facilitating illegal entry into the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe resisted those charges, and the attempts to detain them,\u201d says Brown. \u201cThey wanted to detain the mother, father and young girl in different detention centres.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While undocumented migrants are particularly vulnerable, the administrative and legislative measures targeting them are also affecting rough sleepers in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen people make homelessness applications to the local authority, and basically there was a level of gatekeeping in that they wouldn\u2019t take the application until that person had an ID,\u201d Jackson says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s frustrating is that ID is not a legal requirement for the local authority,\u201d Jackson says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can take the assessment if they have reason to believe that somebody is eligible. Instead, they are being asked to prove that they are actually homeless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39305\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_sign_2_-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_sign_2_-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_sign_2_-1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_sign_2_-1-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_sign_2_-1-500x342.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39305\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_sign_2_-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_sign_2_-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_sign_2_-1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_sign_2_-1-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/protest_sign_2_-1-500x342.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to verify and over verify,\u201d says Brown, whether the people in question are rough sleepers, asylum seekers or average British citizens. \u00a0\u201cAnd God forbid if you have to register with a GP or a hospital quickly, unless you have a document to show you have permission to be here in the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown offered a final word of caution to all attendees at the community centre, \u201cIf any one of you, as teachers, social workers, friends or family of loved ones, tries to assist anyone with an application to remain within the UK, you are all committing a criminal offense. That\u2019s how hostile this environment is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what we face. That\u2019s what people face coming into the UK. Be cautious, the hostile environment applies to you all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hostile environment policies are targeting those without the right to remain in the UK, how is this affecting those in Cardiff?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":39316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[34,277,767],"coauthors":[618],"class_list":["post-39272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-social-justice","tag-activism","tag-human-rights","tag-refugees"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Human rights activists: &#039;We are at war with this hostile environment&#039; - 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