The charities using YOUR money to sabotage all efforts to rein back migration

A Mail investigation has now discovered how the Left use these organisations to u A time-honoured ritual is being played out amid the chaos gripping Calais this summer holiday season. For example, the head of one of the charities, Refugee Action’s Stephen Hale, contended recently that the Government was ‘seeking to create a climate of fear and misinformation’ about asylum-seekers. To this end, a fifth charitable organisation, called Detention Action, recently managed to force the suspension of the Government’s ‘detained fast-track’ asylum process, on the grounds that it was ‘systematically unfair and unjust’. Active members: For example, Asylum Aid’s chair of trustees is Cate Briddick, a Labour-supporting barrister who was active in Camberwell and Peckham Labour Party Accounts show that the Joint Council, which ‘exists to promote justice and fairness in immigration’, has an annual budget of £320,000, of which £62,000 comes from Legal Aid, and another £128,000 in income from ‘training and conferences’. Donations: The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has given generously to a selection of Left-wing organisations, including such pro-immigration groups as Detention Action On a still more nakedly political note, Esmee Fairbairn last year funded Green & Black Cross, a group who provide ‘legal support for protests against the government’s wave of massive spending cuts’ and the Child Poverty Action Group, which recently proclaimed that ‘children are at the bottom of the government’s list of priorities’.