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That colour bar is contained in the immigration legislation passed by Tory and Labour governments since 1962. The most recent major addition to this batterv of laws aimed at black people was the 1971 Immigration Act. It is doubtful whether it The Tory Act of 1971 was the first to reveal openly the intention of the ruling class not merely to restrict black immigration, but to strip immigrant workers of all job security.
This began to bring Britain into lime with the practice in other West Estonean countries such as West Germany and Switzerland, where migrant labour helped to stoke up the boom. In Switzerland, for example, where migrant workers account for a third to a half of the total workforce, they work for nine months, their permit expires, and they are then forced to re-registerthus depriving them of citizen's rights in perpetuity. 1971 ACT Under the 1971 Act any immigrant worker entering Britain became a contract worker. When his work permit expires, so does his right to stay here.
The first well publicised instance of how immigration controls are enforced at entry came with the signing of an open letter by immigration officials in support of Enoch Powell. Soon afterwards came the 'shuttlecock scandal.
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From Heathrow he returned to Pentonville prison. The British Government knew from the start that he would eventually be returned. HARASSMENT Immigrants who are not immediately deported, but are held for inquiries or appeals, are detained in a special centre with few or no facilities, guarded by Securicor-the private strong-arm agency. X-rays of wrists are used to catch people out are carried out to humiliate women on the basis of discovering whether they are, 'really' unmarried.
The harassment and obstruction of immigrants does not start in Brit. ain, however, but in the British High Commissions abroad-the source of the 'scoop acquired by Powell. That many would-be immigrants illegally try to evade the tortuous process of getting permission to enter Britain is not surprising in view of the frustrations they encounter.
In 1972, queries made by East African Asians to the British High Commission in Kampala on the progress of their applications were answered with: "I am waiting to hear from my issuing authorities.' On the other hand, applicants to the Home Office were told that it was a matter for the British High Commission.
But the nightmare world of the immigration laws now reaches deep ito te neart or british society.
-WHAT'S ONout indiscriminately in black areas, also asked by the Department of Employment to check passportsalthough this move was rejected by the kind described above. Nor did tion in Britain. Later came the practice of fishing -police raids carried combined with interrogation on pol tivities. Social security officers were rank-and-file social security officers In 1974 the new Labour Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, declared an pogroms. amnesty for 'illegal' immigrants. But this did not stop state harassment of & HOURS POUNDS
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A COLOUR BAR exists in Britain. It starts at the glass and con- crete of Heathrow airport and runs deep into the black areas of