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A SUPPOSEDLY independent watchdog that monitors Britain’s immigration detention centres faced heavy criticism today after it emerged that the organisation’s clerks are Home Office staff.
The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) describes itself as “a group of ordinary members of the public.”
Its unpaid members have “unrestricted access” to detention centres and can talk to any detainee at any time “out of sight and hearing of members of staff if necessary.”
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The visa system traps workers with abusive employers, creating a vulnerable workforce scared to complain for fear of deportation — that is why we’re campaigning for a ‘common sponsorship’ model instead, writes FAVOUR DAVIDKING
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY