{"id":3788,"date":"2017-08-24T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T13:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/24\/despite-its-promises-the-government-is-still-locking-up-migrants-indefinitely-paul-blomfield\/"},"modified":"2017-08-24T15:30:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T13:30:38","slug":"despite-its-promises-the-government-is-still-locking-up-migrants-indefinitely-paul-blomfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=3788","title":{"rendered":"Despite its promises, the government is still locking up migrants indefinitely | Paul Blomfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are the only country in Europe to hold people in detention centres with no time limit \u2013 some of them for years. This inhumane practice needs to endBehind today\u2019s headlines about net migration figures lurk statistics on those hidden within the UK\u2019s immigration detention estate. We can\u2019t let the government off the hook for failing to reduce our use of detention. With Brexit on the horizon our immigration system must be fit for purpose, now more than ever. Related: Net migration to UK drops to lowest level for three years Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/aug\/24\/migrants-europe-detention-centres-time-limit\" target=\"_blank\">Despite its promises, the government is still locking up migrants indefinitely | Paul Blomfield<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are the only country in Europe to hold people in detention centres with no time limit \u2013 some of them for years. This inhumane practice needs to endBehind today\u2019s headlines about net migration figures lurk statistics on those hidden within the UK\u2019s immigration detention estate. We can\u2019t let the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}