Birnberg Peirce & Partners

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• «Outsourcing abuse» The use and misuse of state-sanctioned force during the detention and removal of asylum seekers

  13 August 2008
  Asylum applications are a 14-year low, yet the proportional use of detention has increased 7-fold. The government is driven by seemingly arbitrary targets on deportation and has just announced a near doubling of detention centre capacity. «Mass deportations» may follow if the government puts into effect its announcement made in August 2007 to deal with 450,000 unresolved asylum cases within 5 years or less.