Resist Deportation MCR

Resist Deportation MCR organically began in response to the passing of the Rwanda Bill in April 2024 and the wave of detentions and threatened deportations which followed. We came to fill a gap left within the grassroot migrant justice movement around Greater Manchester and we are fully self-organised and mostly unresourced. Our organising focuses on challenging the hostile environment and providing support to people in the immigration system. We have had a presence at Dallas Court Home Office reporting centre for several months, by monitoring detentions from this location, providing signposting and key information outside at our stall, as well as emotional support and solidarity to people navigating an extremely hostile, distressing and oppressive system. Furthermore, we have been offering 1-to-1 support helping people to make ends meet, such action against homelessness and destitution, accompanying people to hospital or immigration-related appointments, help with sorting out applications, bills and payments, responding to solidarity call outs from other migrant justice groups around the country, and more. We also have close relations with migrant justice organisations and grassroot collectives in the North West and beyond.