Will Black

Writer with a background in anthropology and mental health care

Cameron appears to have frantically scribbled the policy on a napkin as he watched the local election results come in. Since his party's woeful performance, he has suddenly become more jittery about immigration than Captain Hook was about ticking clocks.

Jerome Phelps

Director of Detention Action

We are in a high security wing of Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, just outside Heathrow Airport, to run an advice workshop. Often, we find people with urgent needs for advice and advocacy. But today, almost everyone I see is an asylum-seeker on the Detained Fast Track, which means that there is little that we can do to help.

Jane Sparrow

Managing Director & Author, The Culture Builders

There are many ways to resign: with dignity, anger, absence, humour... alcohol (all five if you want to go out in style). But with a cake?

Don Flynn

Director, Migrants Rights Network

Capita seemed to have a sure-fire guarantee that money was there to be made out of this deal. All they had to do was contact the individuals concerned, either by old-fashioned letter or text message, telling them it was time to go, and they'd be paid a commission.

Michael Allen

Student, Politics and International Studies at The University of Warwick, and writer

Compassion and immigration control have appeared as unreconcilable concepts since Theresa May's appointment as Home Secretary. Ever since she took office in 2010, Ms. May has appeared determined to respond to the tabloids' cries that the UK is letting in too many immigrants.

Rebecca Tinsley

Journalist and human rights activist

At the heart of the Abu Qatada case is a dispiriting lesson for those relying on the UK's once honourable track record as a haven for dissidents: the rich, famous, notorious or powerful still have a better chance of justice.

Lisa Doyle

Advocacy and Influencing Manager at the Refugee Council

The UK Border Agency is once again being slammed by the Home Affairs Select Committee in their report out today. And rightly so.

Dr Kyle Grayson

Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Newcastle University

The coalition government, under the auspices of the UK Border Agency (UKBA), is transforming universities from places of discovery and learning into border checkpoints where the constant surveillance and monitoring of students--foreign and domestic alike--is a core part of every university's mission.

Olga Crosse

It all started harmlessly enough two weeks ago at Heathrow. I checked my bag in with the somnambulant customer services agent at the Aer Lingus desk a...

Adnan Al-Daini

Blogger who abhors injustice, hypocrisy and double standards

Asylum seekers are those, in the main, who are escaping war and/or have stood up to tyranny and injustice from their rulers. They are courageous people that need to be admired, not vilified.

Gemma Lousley

Advice/Information Worker, Detention Advice Service

Theresa May is right to have highlighted the need to reform the way foreign national prisoners are dealt with. If she is truly determined to root out unfairness in the current system, however, her concerns should lie with increasing the opportunities available to this group to understand and exercise their rights, and not with limiting their ability to access justice still further.

Jackie Doyle-Price

Member of Parliament for Thurrock

I am proud of this country and of the liberties we enjoy. I am proud that we give a safe haven to those fleeing persecution. I am also proud that Britain is seen as a beacon of freedom and opportunity and that so many people would wish to pursue their lives here.

Chris Bryant

Shadow Immigration Minister

Theresa May's appalling handling of the whole Borders Agency muddle over the last fortnight shows she has a touch of James Murdoch about her.