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Protest at the national deportation centre
Residents Against Racism
2pm, Thursday 27 October
Garda National Immigration Bureau
Burgh Quay
Central Dublin
(Opposite Liberty Hall)
On Tuesday 18 October, the state carried out a mass deportation of 46
people
to Nigeria. Many of those people were deported from the Garda National
Immigration Bureau (GNIB) in central Dublin.
Running battles took place between gardaí and supporters of Residents
Against Racism. This succeeded in buying time and saving some of the
intended victims from deportation. It also highlighted the real nature
of
deportation, as numbers of gardaí were drafted in to smuggle people out
of
the GNIB back entrance, and to literally drag one woman along the
street to
a waiting garda van. Three protestors were arrested, and two of them
are in
court on 26 and 27 October. (Further reports are on the Indymedia
newswire.)
The GNIB is the national deportation centre, the administrative heart
of the
machine that drags people away to be kicked out of the country to face
a
desperate fate that the state couldn’t care less about. Opponents of
state racism need to highlight the reality of the brutal activities
that
take place in the national deportation centre, and show solidarity with
the
refugees who have that prospect hanging over them. This protest is our
next
opportunity to do that.
Residents Against Racism
2pm, Thursday 27 October
Garda National Immigration Bureau
Burgh Quay
Central Dublin
(Opposite Liberty Hall)
On Tuesday 18 October, the state carried out a mass deportation of 46
people
to Nigeria. Many of those people were deported from the Garda National
Immigration Bureau (GNIB) in central Dublin.
Running battles took place between gardaí and supporters of Residents
Against Racism. This succeeded in buying time and saving some of the
intended victims from deportation. It also highlighted the real nature
of
deportation, as numbers of gardaí were drafted in to smuggle people out
of
the GNIB back entrance, and to literally drag one woman along the
street to
a waiting garda van. Three protestors were arrested, and two of them
are in
court on 26 and 27 October. (Further reports are on the Indymedia
newswire.)
The GNIB is the national deportation centre, the administrative heart
of the
machine that drags people away to be kicked out of the country to face
a
desperate fate that the state couldn’t care less about. Opponents of
state racism need to highlight the reality of the brutal activities
that
take place in the national deportation centre, and show solidarity with
the
refugees who have that prospect hanging over them. This protest is our
next
opportunity to do that.
