{"id":591,"date":"2019-03-22T13:17:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T13:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/?p=591"},"modified":"2019-03-22T13:17:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T13:17:23","slug":"call-for-changes-in-home-office-migrant-detention-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/call-for-changes-in-home-office-migrant-detention-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for changes in Home Office migrant detention policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/law\/people\/1239\/york-sheona\">Sheona York\u00a0<\/a>commented: \u2018There is nothing to be surprised about in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/mar\/21\/home-office-has-utterly-failed-in-immigration-detention-mps-find\">Home Affairs Committee\u2019s critical report<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0UK\u2019s detention of migrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Home Office policy on detention is plagued by the same policy and operational failings as its immigration policy generally. A fear of the \u201cpull factor\u201d and a fear of a hostile public\u00a0leads the Home Office to ignore a basic principle, namely that no one should be detained without charge or conviction except for the purposes of removal where removal is imminent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Imminent\u2019 is generally understood to mean within about 4 weeks. Despite this,\u00a0decisions to detain people, and to continue their detention, continue to be based on flawed assessments, incomplete records and unlawful reasoning arising from a \u2018culture of disbelief\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018All this is\u00a0exacerbated by the outsourcing and privatising of much of the detention and removal process,\u00a0which, by extracting profit from an already poorly-funded system, reduces the standards of service to detained people, and legally distances them from legal remedies theoretically available to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018What the Home Office needs to do is to make the political argument that it is wrong to detain people, and that the current privatised system simply does not enable detention, as a policy, to be carried out to an acceptable standard, and thus should be curtailed to no more than 28 days if not completely abandoned.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sheona York focuses her<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/law\/people\/1239\/york-sheona#research\">\u00a0research<\/a>\u00a0on issues arising from recent and current UK immigration policies such as the aim to reduce net migration, to discourage unlawful migrants through the \u2018hostile environment\u2019 and to deport foreign criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheona York\u00a0commented: \u2018There is nothing to be surprised about in the\u00a0Home Affairs Committee\u2019s critical report\u00a0on the\u00a0UK\u2019s detention of migrants. \u2018Home Office policy on detention is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/call-for-changes-in-home-office-migrant-detention-policy\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38005,"featured_media":274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}