UCU: Points based immigration

Motion

Motion text: Congress condemns the points based immigration system ‚Äì
monitoring and tracking international staff and students is implicitly racist, undermines civil liberties, and could produce draconian absence and sickness policies;
biometric ID cards for international staff and students is a backdoor route to their general introduction;
losing students could threaten the survival of many educational institutions;
employees could face intimidation for refusing to monitor or inform on colleagues.
Congress agrees to:
campaign with others against this system, and to monitor its impact;
advise members that they are not contracted as immigration officers of the Borders Agency or informants for the Special Branch;
to assist branches in supporting members in their refusal to monitor or track international staff and students;
write to principals and vice-chancellors encouraging them publicly to oppose to this xenophobic and proto-racist measure;
intensify the recruitment of international staff eligible for membership;
urge the TUC to condemn this system.