'WE HAVE HAD too much carping from some immigrant quarters. becoming as near to ordinary people as they can. These people are not Europeans and are quite different in character, religion, habits and customs from our own people.
ud to have joined one of the oldest and most civilised nations in the world.
These Stokes Tory MP in the Commons on 1 April of this year. He was advocating even greater immigration control.
In fact immigration control has been so "successful' that the attack has noW switched to black peopie alcady lving here This has taken two forms.
First there are a series of laws depriving black people of state benefits on the grounds that they are ordinarily resident' here.
Examples are the new Security Act;
and the new health regulations that will become law this October.
Seal Along side is the Nationality Act wnich puts the formal seal on the creation of second-class black citizenship.
Second the has unleashed direct violence against black people through the increased militarisation of the police in the black ghettoes. This has now been taken into the courts with the frame-up conspiracy trial of the Bradford Twelve.
This intensification of internal control ought not to blind us to the fact that the Immigration Act is still being vigorously enforcedpeople like John Stokes demanding even more vigour.
However this control is itself being met with increased costalle within the black community and its allies. The victories with Anwar Ditta, Begum and Nasreen Achtar show that mass CanDales can be successful. Khans A glaring example of how the laws work against black people is the case of the Khans in Manchester where there has been a five month struggle to prevent their Tatany being expelled-Shaukat and Parveen Khan young children, Imran (16 months) and Irtan (6 months).
Shaukat came here Pakistan at the age of 13 in 1972 to join his uncle. He arrived using his cousin's passport.
However was loo young to know this. In nounced an 'amnesty' for so-caled 'illegal migrants'.
1977 Shaukat discovered his situation.
However. like most people, he assumed that the Socialist Challenge 22 April 1982 page 6 Let them get on with words were spoken by John amnesty was automaticno-one told him or anyone else that it had to be applied for.
When he discovered in 1980 that he had to make an application he did apply to the Home Office. He was then told by the Home Office unal the alliesly had stopped in 1978!
Thanks He was also told he was going to be removed from this country thanks to the fact that he had announced his presence here.
The Home Office also said they were going to remove Parveen. She had come In 1979 and was completely ignorant of Shaukat's immigration status. The Home Office are now claiming that she entered the country by deception - that is failing to disclose a fact of which she was totally ignorant!
Imran and Irfan were both born here. As such they are UK citizens and cannot, n theory, be pelled. But the Home Of fice ha: 'generously' offered them one-way ticket to Pakistan. Threat This is another way of the Nationality children of illegal' parents will anyhow be forced to leave with their parents as they will be UK citizens. And under the Immigration Act anyone 'accused' of being an illegal Immigtall Cali be removed without having the opportunity to be tried or heard.
William Whitelart says that it is in the interest of 'good community relations' that the Khans be removed.
The Khan Family Defence Committee says that it is in the interests of good community relations that the Khans stay and the Immigration Act removed So far the committee has gained local support within the community and By Toni Gorton 'THE BRADFORD TWELVE are like my sons today', declared Anwar demonstration in Leeds.
which helped me to defeat the racism discrimination of the Home Office.
begins?' 'Yes, 'We'll be there!' The twelve Asian youths. face life imprisonment if the trial about to start finds them guilty of conspiracy to manufacture explosives.
all declare their innocence. This trial of black political activists and a lot is at stake.
Socialist Challenge urges its supporters to be REPATRIATION WEEN ARE DE, NOTES I LATELAN, THE HOME SEGRETARY, day 23 April 7.30-11. Speakers: Anwar Ditta and from African National Congress, Newton Rose Campaign.
Polytechnic Cavendish St, W1.
tion because his wife who is a UK born here.
Kantilal Mistry is in the same situation as Reggie Yates. And Ibrahim Patel is being deported because the Home Office does not recognise him as an Iman a priest Whatever the official reasons the case is clear. If black you're vulnerable to enforced repatriation. of Central London, 115 New from the Defence Committee to speak to your group, branch etc • You to collect petitions from the Committee • You to send money to the Khan Family Defence Committee at Stockport Road Longsight, Manchester 13 Telephone 061 225 5111 The other campaigns can be contacted at Sultan Mahmood: c/o 27 Gower St. Oldham, Lancs Mumtaz Kiani: c/o Bradforo
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