| Comment | Got to say, the community defence of these two men hasn't been borne from nothing. It comes after 20 years of increasing belligerence from the Home Office.
There are cases aplenty to show that they needlessly detain individuals on a daily basis. Often not for immediate deportation, or in response to a specific infraction, but while they await a decision on their pending asylum application. This can go on for months and months. They Home Office also has a terrible appeals record, losing something 70% of cases that make it to appeal following rejection.
Networks have developed (evidently, as we saw yesterday) through the last decade allowing concerned fellow citizens, neighbours, time to act and prevent what could well be an unwarranted detention of a vulnerable person with a limited support network. |
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