Campaign against Immigration Controls

Immigration controls are a weapon against the whole work force. They divide us and are a tool of discipline the workforce. If there are workers with less right or no rights, this undermines the position of workers as a whole. The answer must be to oppose immigration controls. EQUAL RIGHTS ARE IN THE INTERESTS OF ALL WORKERS!

Immigration controls are in your work place and the union ought to be
fighting them. This is getting worse with new legislation which makes employers into spies for the Home Office, asking for papers and national insurance details from migrant workers on a regular basis.UNIONS MUST RESIST THESE LAWS, ACT IN SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE ATTACKED IN THIS WAY!

People in the caring professions are supposed to act as immigration officers; reporting migrants to the Home Office, denying peopleservices because of their immigration status, evicting them andtaking their children away. Transport workers are expected to takepart in immigration checks at railway and tube stations or deportpeople on aeroplanes. We say DEFIANCE NOT COMPLIANCE!
People in your union are rounded up, detained and deported. We say
NO DEPORTATION! NO DETENTIONS! Set up or support a campaign against their deportation.

Take industrial action to oppose their deportation. 'Illegal' or precarious immigration status makes many workers vulnerable to super-exploitation paid well below the minimum wage with no health and safety
conditions. The tragic consequences of this have been seen on the sands of Morecambe Bay. It is a duty of the trades union movement to organise, support and defend all workers regardless of their immigration status and say loud and clear IMMIGRATION CONTROLS KILL! NO ONE IS ILLEGAL!

There have now been two successful conferences bringing together trade unions and community organisations one in Liverpool and just a month ago, in London. People wanted to take the enthusiasm and energy of these conferences forward into practically building the resistance against immigration controls which has led to the formation of the Campaign Against Immigration Controls – CAIC.