31 Points based immigration – University of Brighton, Falmer
Congress condemns the points based immigration system
- monitoring and tracking international staff and students is implicitly racist, undermines civil liberties, and could produce draconian absence and sickness policies
- biometric ID cards for international staff and students is a backdoor route to their general introduction
- losing students could threaten the survival of many educational institutions
- employees could face intimidation for refusing to monitor or inform on colleagues.
Congress agrees to:
- campaign with others against this system, and to monitor its impact
- advise members that they are not contracted as immigration officers of the Border Agency or informants for the special branch
- to assist branches in supporting members in their refusal to monitor or track international staff and students
- write to principals and vice-chancellors encouraging them publicly to oppose to this xenophobic and proto-racist measure
- intensify the recruitment of international staff eligible for membership
- urge the TUC to condemn this system.
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