Dr Ronit Lentin
Senior Lecturer and Course coordinator, MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies
Department of Sociology,
tel: 353 1 8962766, email:
www.ethnicracialstudies.net
http://people.tcd.ie/rlentin
From: Residents
Against Racism [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:08
PM
To: Ronit Lentin
Subject: RAR condemns tomorrow's
mass deportation plans, announces protest
Residents Against Racism
c/o
[log in to unmask] - www.residentsagainstracism.org
PRESS RELEASE 28th
April 2009
Contacts: Rosanna Flynn (087) 666 2060
'Stop tearing families apart' - Protest announced for
GNIB, Burgh Quay, 2 p.m. tomorrow
Irish authorities, in league with their British
counterparts, have scheduled a mass deportation to
Residents Against Racism spokesperson Rosanna Flynn says
"Families will be ripped apart by the deportation. Several of those under
threat are fathers of Irish Born Children. Others have lived here for up
to six years and have no surviving family in
As a public show of opposition to the deportation, Residents Against Racism
members will gather at the Garda National Immigration Bureau on Burgh Quay at
2pm Wednesday, the time when several of those under threat have been told
to report; others facing forced removal will be rounded up from
locations around the country and brought to Dublin.
In a joint arrangement with British immigration authorities,
a so-called ‘Ethnic
Charter Flight’ will be routed from
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