Protest at the national deportation centre

national | racism & migration related issues | event notice Sunday October 23, 2005 21:23 by Residents Against racism residentsagainstracism at eircom dot net c/o 12 Brunswick Place, Dublin 2 087 6662060 or 087 7974622

2pm, Thursday 27 October

Garda National Immigration Bureau
Burgh Quay
Central Dublin
(Opposite Liberty Hall)

On Tuesday 18 October, the state carried out a mass deportation of 46 people to Nigeria. Many of those people were deported from the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) in central Dublin.

Running battles took place between gardaí and supporters of Residents Against Racism. This succeeded in buying time and saving some of the intended victims from deportation. It also highlighted the real nature of deportation, as numbers of gardaí were drafted in to smuggle people out of the GNIB back entrance, and to literally drag one woman along the street to a waiting garda van. Three protestors were arrested, and two of them are in court on 26 and 27 October. (Further reports are on the Indymedia newswire.)

The GNIB is the national deportation centre, the administrative heart of the machine that drags people away to be kicked out of the country to face a desperate fate that the state couldn’t care less about. Opponents of state racism need to highlight the reality of the brutal activities that take place in the national deportation centre, and show solidarity with the refugees who have that prospect hanging over them. This protest is our next opportunity to do that.