Today I will be reviewing a blog post by Gherson Immigration titled “Home Office Under Criticism Over Mistreatment at Detention Centre and Botched Deportation”, posted on the 26thSeptember 2017. I chose this topic as I find I believe it is a pressing problem which needs to be solved as it is affecting human lives and putting them at risk and needs more attention than it is currently receiving.
The topic of the article mainly focuses on the Home Office’s inability to control and prevent the mistreatment and abuse of detainees at detention centres and their lack of efficiency and ability to correctly deport detainees. The Home Office have given control of detention centres to a company who have already had complaints made against them due to their poor treatment of young offenders when they had a contract for a young offenders institution, which was subsequently taken back from them by the Ministry of Justice. It seems unethical and a poor decision on behalf of the Home Office to give this firm another contract where they are once again in control of extremely vulnerable people. The firm seem to have an inability to distinguish those seeking asylum from those who are being deported due to crimes they have committed. In the case of Samim Bigzad he also did not want to return to the detention centre, which shows that it clearly isn’t run to the best of its abilities and should be handled by another firm, possibly not a private firm as they have their own agendas. On the topic of Samim Bigzad, the handling of his case by the Home Office was unacceptable and put his life at risk. The inability to make a decision on his deportation was disgraceful and the process should be assessed by the Home Office so it doesn’t happen to anyone else.
The length of this post is ideal it’s long enough to cover all the points it needs to, but it’s short enough to not lose people’s interest and avoids waffle. The topic chosen is an important issue happening the UK and is drawing some much needed attention to it. The post is easy to understand and leaves room for further individual research, however, it could use examples of the abuse suffered by the detainees such as witness accounts of the abuse happening. As the topic is still ongoing it’s hard for the writer to summarise the post which would lead to a more well-rounded blog post.
Overall, this blog post is commenting on an extremely interesting topic which is an important issue in the UK affective lives and possibly human rights. The post was well written and an easy read whilst still covering all the important points of the topic.
