Establishment racism: Non-verbal black teenager who has never left UK detained at immigration centre
Priti Patel: it seems she’s so racist, she will merrily try to deport black people, even though they are UK citizens. She just won’t carry out the proper checks.
This is beyond This Writer’s ability to comment. The level of racism displayed by the UK authorities in this story is off the scale:
A woman has described how her 17-year-old black British son was found at an immigration detention centre after going missing while being treated for psychosis.
The boy – who is non-verbal – disappeared from a hospital in Kent, where he had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act, on 7 April. Two days later, he was arrested by British Transport Police (BTP) at Euston on suspicion of fare evasion, before being detained by Immigration Enforcement near Gatwick, despite being British.
“It’s just horrific,” the boy’s mother said. “Because he’s black they just assumed ‘let’s pick him and put him in a deportation centre’.”
When the boy was returned to the hospital, his clothes contained Home Office documents that incorrectly stated his name and date of birth, and recorded his nationality as Nigerian.
“How do they know he’s from Nigeria, when he doesn’t even speak to them?” the woman said of her son.
The boy is a British citizen and has never left the UK. His mother said he would not have been able to say his date of birth properly, and would never have said he was from Nigeria.
James Wilson, deputy director of Detention Action, which works with people facing removal, said unaccompanied minors or children under the age of 18 should not be in detention in the first place. “In theory detention should be an absolute last resort, rather than an early step you would go to,” he said.
This is a prime example of how Priti Patel’s Home Office treats UK citizens, isn’t it?
Let’s consider the Home Office’s comments on this case…
A Home Office spokesperson said: “We rely on information provided by our policing partners when an individual is referred to Immigration Enforcement. In this case, the individual declared himself to British Transport Police to be an adult male. Police nurses assessed him and raised no physical or mental health issues.”
Yeah, but did they? Really? a non-verbal 17-year-old?
I have a doubt about that.
I don’t think the person declared himself to be anything at all.
I don’t think nurses assessed him in anything like an adequate way.
I do think that this case reveals serious failures in Home Office procedures.
And I think it is Priti Patel’s responsibility to sort them out.
But I don’t think – for a single minute – that she is in any way capable, or responsible enough, to take the necessary steps.
Source: Non-verbal black teenager who has never left UK detained at immigration centre
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Since I have retired and have more time, one of my ‘pleasures’ (think I must have a masochistic streak somewhere) has been keeping up with the news and politics. However, I am rapidly getting to the stage where it angers and upsets me so much that I am sure it is not good for my mental health. This is a case in point, an incident is so dreadful, one can only imagine the poor lad’s terror. (And how was he able to ‘disappear’ from a secure hospital is a question that should be asked)
Corrupt police are enacting their fascist tory masters’ policies by illegally arresting and attempting to deport a UK citizen because he is black and hence must be an ‘illegal refugee!’
The lies uttered by the fascist police is staggering and one example is a male police officer’s claim the teenage boy ‘is Nigerian because his accent was the same as other Nigerian women and men who were found with him by police.’ The boy’s mother categorically contradicted these lies because she said her son has a Manchurian accent when he rarely speaks so how could the boy police manage to obtain a response from a teenage boy who has learning difficulties?
No matter whatever lies the fascist police utter it will be accepted as the default truth so woe betide anyone who comes into contact with the fascist police because they are rotten to the core and are no longer operating for the benefit of us peasants. Instead the police are now lackeys of a fascist rotten state!