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Image Credit: Steve Daniels This week it was announced that the Campsfield Immigration Detention centre, near Oxford, is scheduled to close. November marks the 25th anniversary of the opening of Campsfield, and a number of demonstrations had been planned to take place this month in response to this. Bill MacKeith, one of the joint organisers […]
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Students and campaigners have had mixed reactions to the delay in the decision on whether or not to expand Campsfield House immigration detention centre. Cherwell district council voted on 19th February to defer the decision on expanding the site near Kidlington after receiving a legal letter from solicitors representing the Stop Campsfield Expansion group. Bill […]
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A local Oxford MP has voiced support for OUSU’s recent statement on Campsfield House, in which the Executive Body expressed opposition to the immigration detention centre’s proposed expansion. Responding to last week’s OUSU statement, Nicola Blackwood, Conservative MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, told The Oxford Student: “I am fundamentally opposed to this proposal, as […]
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