{"id":308069,"date":"2017-05-14T02:52:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T01:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/migrant-sex-workers-welcome-uk-protesters-demand-closure-of-deportee-detention-facility\/"},"modified":"2017-05-14T02:52:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T01:52:38","slug":"migrant-sex-workers-welcome-uk-protesters-demand-closure-of-deportee-detention-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/migrant-sex-workers-welcome-uk-protesters-demand-closure-of-deportee-detention-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Migrant sex workers welcome\u2019: UK protesters demand closure of deportee detention facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2017.05\/thumbnail\/59177fa8c3618851438b45bc.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 14 May, 2017 00:50 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        Protesters kicked at the walls of the Yarl&#8217;s Wood Immigration Removal Centre, demanding its closure and the release of predominantly female residents of the 400-capacity facility in Bedfordshire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p>Demonstrators chanted \u201cShut it down!\u201d as they made their way towards the center, which opened in 2001, while those inside stood by the windows holding up signs saying, \u201cSave Us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the crowd, prominent signs included \u201cNo human is illegal,\u201d \u201cQueers against borders,\u201d and \u201cMigrant sex workers welcome here,\u201d as well as numerous banners protesting Brexit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z6e0S0zoyFw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of those inside the facility have had their applications for asylum rejected, and are awaiting deportation at the contractor-run center which has been implicated in a series of abuse scandals.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere is absolutely no need for these immigration detention centers at all. It\u2019s just our government makes vulnerable people like immigrants and asylum seekers a scapegoat for the problems in this country that are caused by the greed of their mates \u2013 the one percent,\u201d<\/em> said Simon Hales, a member of the Green Party.<\/p>\n<p>The Greens scheduled the demonstration alongside the launch of their manifesto, which urged the end to migrant detention, and the decriminalization of sex work, both issues related to Yarl\u2019s Wood.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWomen who are coming to the UK seeking refuge are being detained in appalling conditions in centers like Yarl\u2019s Wood, often for years with no end to their incarceration in sight,\u201d<\/em> said deputy Green leader Amelia Womack. <em>\u201cWe can be so much better than this, a confident and caring country that welcomes people in need instead of closing our borders, building walls and locking up vulnerable people who need help.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the Migration Observatory, 28,900 migrants entered Britain\u2019s 11 immigration centers last year. Net migration into the UK totaled more than 650,000 in the 12 month preceding June 2016, the latest official statistics show. And while irregular migration is harder to tally, the number of migrants without visas resident in Britain is thought to run into hundreds of thousands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/388283-yarls-wood-protest-detention\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 14 May, 2017 00:50 Protesters kicked at the walls of the Yarl&#8217;s Wood Immigration Removal Centre, demanding its closure and the release of predominantly female residents of the 400-capacity facility in Bedfordshire. Demonstrators chanted \u201cShut it down!\u201d as they made their way towards the center, which opened in 2001, while those inside stood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-308069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}