IMGpapers 1980–83

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Death by deportation

Socialist Challenge No. 278, 28 January 1983 · pp. 11-12 of the scan · 926 words

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ple have been executed in Iran.

ror tose who avoid execution, brutal alternative of Khomeini's jails, 50,000 political prisoners crowd Women are particularly under threat from the vicious prison guards Dead Despite these barbaric horrors that deportees, the Home Office has turned down requests Lilal Iranian students granted political asylum and has insisted that the regime in stability. Already Britain has deported 100 Iranians, a number of whom simply disappeared when they got The threat of Home BaCK Office • deportation the heads of nanovel another 900 people.

Racist In some cases college administrators are laborating with the Home Offic to get rid of Iranian students. One Conced quired Iranian doing their HND to pass levels. No such was demanded cutement of English students. Those who did not pass their 'A"

levels did not get on the course, therefore lost their visa and now face deportation.

In applying laws the uses every possible means that it can muster against black ple. Not only Goes LIar rass them with immigration officials and police, but its also uses the BRITAIN'S RACIST IMMIGRATION laws are who are opponents of the Khomeini regime are plane at Tehran airport. Twenty thousand peoDepartment of Health and the Social Security.

Parveen Khan Manjit Kaur are two single mothers living children in the Manchestet area. Not only ing faced theat of forced deportation but the state has devised a way of starving them and their children.

DHSS has not only refused to pay them any supbenefit, picmeltaly have also been told that they are not allowed child benefit, their children for born here. TaCU Son Enus Ali has now declared migrant after living here fo an illegal six years. enus arrived In Britain in 1976 as a 14 year old boy. His Tabarak had since 1963 and from then until 1974 col- so he could bring his son to Britain. Enus every other Fred the procedure no students procedure the racist laws and waited nearly two year before he got permission speaking and join his father. Iranian before he arrived in Britain, his cancer.

Illegal its racist Now suddenly six years later the Home Office has peo discovered he is an illegal immigrant. pened because last year he went back to Bangladesh to get married and on his return naturally for his wife to come and join him in Britain When he was being in terviewed at Ringway airport by an immigration officer about his wite's application, he when he arrived here. Last went to see Enus, tell him that his wife could join him, but to say that he illegally Was because his father had died before he could join and that he was deported Residence Anthony Brown is Jamaican-born 22 year old who has lived in since he was six, exception two years and ten months.

He now taces deportation because the country. Derek Wilton STOWE has resided in Britain since 1954. He had trained as ar architect and worked tor the Ministry journeying in Britain.

Anthony was going Lo Stretford Grammar school when his father accepted a two-year contract to lec ture Technology Derek Brown then took his family Jalliaila otten adopted by lecturers when they take and appointments but then he was not white. and that is where the racist laws come into effect. are tney be the legal Status Anthony -ine school in Jamaica but was not happy there and asked to return to but stay with his older brother who had Jamaica His aespre hic refused thinking he would were be too great a responsibility.

Anthony's

renewed his been Jamaica at the end of two im- years breaching the migration WICE Anthony father family got back to Britain been here were surprised dismayed to find they had breached the immigration he saved hard laws, which stipulate that like nearly to preserve their resident's immigrant sur Status non-SEES CHECH must not be away for more tan two yeats al d thie.

Support - CollIC Just The extra ten months father died of his father had stayed away meant the threat of deportation is being used against him and he has been told that he must now leave the country.

These cases. with the fight to save the This has hap- iver students, COOLE Chan, Manjit Kaur, Enu Ali, applied from deportation, call for the support of the labour movement and should also the COUCCEEE students unions.

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mentioned was dead immigration Racist Laws is holding a not to demonstration in Londor on Sunday 27 March, and we hope our readers pencil Britain that in not only should we him, ine Campaign, March demonstration, but we have os art calluds! ing now inside the Labour ParL and unions for the support of OU CUCS That means get the Labour Party conwith the will repeal these iniquitous and barbarous laws which are used by the state to inof the history of TICI suttering. residence death in the case of the IraSLULICLES Anthony's father Labour end such doing so show black and Asian people that their inof Works, terests lie with the labour movement. brital!

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causing increasing suffering to thousands of black people, and in some cases literally mean Hundreds of Iranian students in Britain,

facing death by deportation. Already many of those who have been forced to return have been summarily executed after getting off the

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