Editorial: Racism and the Home Office – politics perverted
Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent following a fire at the site last Friday THE supreme irony in the Home Office’s decision to detain asylum-seekers in army barracks is that it is “justified” in an equality impact assessment. The mistreatment of refugees held in demeaning conditions is defended on the grounds that “more generous” accommodation would “undermine public confidence in the asylum system.” Critics who say this is “the politics of hard-right racism” are correct. It is inseparable from years of demonisation of refugees in the media and by politicians of the highe...
Source: morningstaronline.co.uk
