Open the borders!
After weeks of outrage and protests , the detention camp at Manston, Kent was emptied on 22 November. Thousands of asylum seekers had been imprisoned in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions, many for far longer than the legal limit. One detainee died. The camp now resumes as a short-term processing centre. But the situation could easily reverse. Manston was just one head of a hydra: the racist system of brutality and exploitation against migrants. We learned on 27 November that the Home Office put asylum-seeking children at risk by classing them as adults contrary to their identity documents...