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A quote from the article states that "unfortunately the Polish people in the UK have been victims of discrimination and hate crime especially since the Brexit referendum". The article says that a fringe group are appealing to Polish immigrants through a Facebook page that has 1.9million likes. Jayda Fransen told BBC that any immigrants who are born in the UK can stay, however if they are Muslims or criminals they can not. This shows clear discrimination against Muslims.

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Although their manifesto calls for a near-total halt to immigration, the far-right political party Britain First is now actively trying to appeal to Polish immigrants.

They are a fringe group, with no elected officials at any level, but Britain First has about 1.9 million Facebook likes - more than any other UK political party. And now they're trying to use that social media footprint to make explicit appeals to Polish immigrants living in the UK.

A string of Britain First videos that seem designed to attract a Polish audience have appeared online. Recent ones include a video from Jacek Miedlar, a Polish far-right former priest, an interview with a Polish media outlet that has over half a million views, and videos by Polish Britain First supporters encouraging others to support the party.

Miedlar, who has over 25,000 subscribers on YouTube, is an activist known for his anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic views. He has tried to travel to the UK twice this year to attend Britain First rallies but was stopped by UK authorities.

The videos have been posted despite Britain First's anti-immigration manifesto which calls for cash payments to foreigners to leave the UK, a complete halt to immigration except for people who marry British citizens, and a call to make it "an act of treason to implement any policy or measure, or sign any agreement, that facilitates and/or results in significant numbers of foreigners entering the sovereign territory of the United Kingdom with the aim of settling."

Despite the party's hard line on immigration, Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen told BBC Trending that post-Brexit, all European immigrants who are already in the UK should be allowed to stay, as long as they aren't criminals or Muslims. The party also supports a total ban on Islam in the UK, a policy they believe will attract some support from Polish migrants.

Poles form the largest immigrant community in Britain. There were an estimated 831,000 Polish-born residents in 2015 - a jump of almost 750,000 compared with the number in 2004, the year Poland joined the European Union.

Rafal Pankowski from the Polish anti-hate charity Never Again says the party's attempts to appeal to UK-based Polish people may have something to do with what he perceives to be a trend towards the far-right in Polish society.

"We have been witnessing a rise in far-right activity in Poland itself as well," he says. "And unfortunately the Polish people in the UK have been victims of discrimination and hate crime especially since the Brexit referendum. And some of them have been turning to Polish far-right nationalist groups for a sense of belonging."

'Not pleasant'

Wiktor Moszczynski, a former spokesperson for the Federation of Poles in Great Britain, agrees that there has been a spike of far-right activity amongst Polish people living in the UK, but says that such activity has recently died down.

"At the moment the trend tends to be towards the right in Polish society, both in Poland and to some extent here in the UK, but when I say right that doesn't necessarily mean radical right," Moszczynski tells BBC Trending radio.

"Suddenly these groups began turning up in demonstrations in the UK over the last two or three years generally wearing Polish fascist symbols, but what I do have to say is I have not seen anything of this in the last year," he says. "I have been spoken to by the police who are very concerned about these groups, so we do know that there may still be an undercurrent. But at the moment the problem seems to have been in remission, temporarily at least."

He says a majority of the younger Polish community are resistant to the influence of far-right groups, including Britain First, but nevertheless the far-right spike is "not pleasant, particularly at a time when we're trying to build up sympathy for the Poles living in this country on the way they've been treated after the Brexit vote."

'Far-right rise'

A recent report from the campaigning group Hope Not Hate said the largest and most organised neo-Nazi group in the UK is the National Rebirth of Poland. The presence of groups like these, Hope Not Hate says, has fuelled extreme far-right activists.

Britain First rarely runs candidates. When they do they receive a small amount of the vote, such as the 1.2% of the vote party leader Paul Golding attracted in the 2016 London mayoral election. Its outsized social media following is due to a combination of factors including paid advertising, a core group of dedicated followers, and the use of less controversial posts - for instance messages encouraging people to support the troops or the royal family - and other tactics to drive up the numbers of likes.

The group's Facebook page has also become something of an international hub people attracted to its anti-Islam message. According to an analysis by Trending, less than half (44%) of the group's Facebook likes come from accounts based inside the UK, with large numbers of likes coming from the US, Australia and Canada. Around 23,000 of the page's likes come from Polish accounts.

By way of comparison, 87% of the Labour Party's 1 million likes come from UK accounts. The figure for the Conservative Party (more than 600,000 likes) is 78%.

Fransen claims the party has a "growing number" of Polish members and supporters, but refused to provide membership figures. She says the party's low appeal at the ballot box can be explained by the fact that the group has been concentrating on direct action, including turning up at the homes and offices of elected officials.

Pankowski believes the membership figures are very small, yet says his organisation saw via social media a number of Polish flags and Polish people at a Britain First rally in Birmingham last month.

In one video from the event, a UK-based Polish former wrestling champion Marian Lukasik, can be heard advocating the assassination of German Chancellor Angela Merkel because of her country's refugee policy. Lukasik has recently made other videos in support of Britain First.

"Britain First decided to attract support among the Polish community in the UK against Muslims, and a small section of the Polish community in the UK is probably prone to such messages," Pankowski says. "But obviously it's ironic because Polish migrants and Muslim migrants in the UK actually have a lot in common in terms of the everyday challenges they face."
Blog by Kayleen Devlin You can find BBC Trending on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @BBCtrending. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.

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The anti-immigration party trying to recruit immigrants

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Although their manifesto calls for a near-total halt to immigration, the far-right political party Britain First is now actively trying to appeal to Polish immigrants. They are a fringe group, with no elected officials at any level, but Britain First has about 1.9 million Facebook likes - more than any other UK political party.

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Woman threatened with deportation after living the UK for almost 50 years and asks for apology from the government

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Woman threatened with deportation after living the UK for almost 50 years and asks for apology from the government

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Madison Sinclair

Paulette Wilson came to Telford in 1968 when she was 10, now aged 61, threatens deportation after she found out her benefits had be stopped. She was detained in the Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre, where she was held for a week before being released. However, she has now been told she can remain in the UK by the home office. Government guidelines state that anyone who settled in the UK before 1 January 1973 has the right to remain. Emma Reynolds, MP for Wolverhampton North East, has already asked the immigration minister to apologise. But Ms Wilson said "being a black person, I'm not confident at all" she would receive an apology.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42681009

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This news article is about Trumps executive order banning people from Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, Syria and Somalia is being implemented at Dublin airports, says the Irish Minister. People are discriminated against based on the fact that they are coming from a country that Trump has banned to be allowed into Europe.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38797581

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/sep/11/no-europeans-need-apply-growing-evidence-discrimination-uk-brexit

In order to get a job recently, jobs are asking for a British passport. They also say that candidate must have the right to stay and work permanently in the UK, and a valid UK passport.

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Immigrants in Britain face discrimination - Chloe Robinson

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Immigrants in Britain face discrimination - Chloe Robinson

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Immigrants in the UK are forced to demand fair treatment as they are being treated unfairly by being made to pay excessive fees by the Home Office. They are facing discriminatory and unethical treatment.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/immigrants-in-britain-face-discrimination-402311

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Lucie Ball
Those without a passport are at a disadvantage when seeking a private rental. Landlords are being forced to discriminate because of the right to rent scheme set up all over England by the government.

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A controversial scheme requiring landlords to check the immigration status of new tenants is fuelling discrimination and should be scrapped, a report claims.

The Right to Rent initiative has left British citizens without passports as well as foreigners at a disadvantage in the private rental market, say campaigners.

They also argue there is little evidence that the approach is having an impact in the Government's efforts to create a "hostile environment" for illegal immigrants.

Right to Rent, which was rolled out across England last year, requires landlords to establish that tenants have a right to be in the country by taking copies of documents such as passports or identity cards.

Failure to comply can lead to fines of up to £3,000 a tenant, while those who persistently flout the law by failing to carry out checks can face up to five years in prison.

The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) says its research suggests landlords who have no wish to discriminate are being forced to do so.

Of 108 landlords who responded in a survey, more than half (51%) said Right to Rent would make them less likely to consider letting to foreigners.

And 42% stated that they were less likely to rent to someone without a British passport as a result of the scheme.

A mystery shopping exercise found that a British Black Minority Ethnic tenant without a passport was 26% more likely to receive a negative response or no response than a BME tenant who could provide a British passport

A white British tenant without a passport was 11% more likely to be ignored or turned down than a white British applicant with the document.

No evidence of racial discrimination was detected between the BME and "white British" scenarios where both had a British passport.

"This strongly suggests that the discrimination found is as a result of the Right to Rent scheme, rather than latent discrimination by racist landlords," the report said.

It accused the Government of being unable to provide evidence as to the supposed benefits of the crackdown.

It also described Home Office guidance to landlords as confusing and labelled the procedure "Kafkaesque".

The paper concluded: "The Right to Rent scheme conscripts ordinary members of civil society into the immigration enforcement arm of the Government, and does so in such a crude and ham-fisted fashion that it creates structural incentives for them to discriminate unlawfully against foreigners and ethnic minorities."

Saira Grant, chief executive of JCWI, argued that Right to Rent was "failing on all fronts".

She said: "It treats many groups who need housing unfairly, it is clearly discriminatory, it is putting landlords in an impossible position and there is no evidence that it is doing anything to tackle irregular immigration.

"It is time to stop the scheme before it does any more damage."

Alan Ward, chairman of the Residential Landlords Association, said it shared JCWI's concerns over document discrimination.

He added: "There are more than 400 acceptable documents proving right to rent from within the EU alone and landlords are making risk-based decisions and only accepting documents that they recognise and have confidence in."

Figures published last month showed that across two phases of the scheme, 106 landlords have been issued with civil penalties.

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Landlords' immigration checks are 'fueling discrimination'

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A controversial scheme requiring landlords to check the immigration status of new tenants is fuelling discrimination and should be scrapped, a report claims. The Right to Rent initiative has left British citizens without passports as well as foreigners at a disadvantage in the private rental market, say campaigners.

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Immigration discrimination

This article discusses how 33% of immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa feel discriminated due to their skin colour. 4 out of 10 immigrants feel discriminated against in one or more daily aspect of their lives because of their ethnic background.

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A large number of immigrants feel discriminated against in Malta, with 33% of people from Sub-Saharan Africa discriminated due to their skin colour

33% of immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa feel discriminated due to their skin colour in Malta.

The results of the EU MIDIS II report published by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights show that a large number of immigrants feel discriminated against in Malta.

While over 30% felt they were discriminated against due to their skin colour, 20% are discriminated due to their ethnic origin in four areas of daily life, namely when looking for work, at work, in access to housing, and when in contact with school authorities as a parent, in the five years before the survey.

On the other hand, across Europe, the findings show that four out of 10 respondents felt discriminated against in one or more areas of daily life because of their ethnic or immigrant background during the same period of time.

These findings are the result of an EU-wide survey carried out by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in 2015 and 2016.

The survey was based on a sample of over 25,500 randomly selected respondents with different ethnic minority and immigrant backgrounds.

In Malta's sphere of employment, 20% of respondents experienced discrimination based on their ethnic or immigrant background when looking for work in the 12 months before the survey, while 15% faced such discrimination at work.

Similarly, 29% of the respondents in the EU28 who looked for a job and 22% of those at work in the five years before the survey experienced discrimination.

The findings show that very few victims of discrimination reported to anyone or made a complaint about the most recent incident of discrimination.

Overall, one out of eight respondents (12%) across Europe reported or made a complaint, compared to 11% of the respondents with Sub-Saharan African backgrounds living in Malta.

The survey examined respondents' level of awareness of organisations that offer support and advice in case of discrimination. 27% of all respondents across Europe, and 12% of the respondents with Sub-Saharan African backgrounds in Malta are aware of such organisations.

In a statement, the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality (NCPE) said that it is illegal to discriminate against people on the grounds of race or ethnic origin, or to treat them less favourably.

"Persons who feel discriminated on the grounds of their race/ethnic origin in employment and in the provision of goods and services can bring this to the attention of NCPE which has the responsibility of investigating such complaints," the statement said.

"NCPE provides training on diversity, equality and non-discrimination to departments/entities in the Public Sector and to any organisation in the private sector on request."

The NCPE reiterated that the participation of all citizens in the different spheres of society enhances diversity and enriches society.

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Discrimination affecting large numbers of ethnic minorities and immigrants

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A large number of immigrants feel discriminated against in Malta, with 33% of people from Sub-Saharan Africa discriminated due to their skin colour 33% of immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa feel discriminated due to their skin colour in Malta.

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Illegal immigrant Mary Hounga can claim discrimination, says landmark Supreme Court ruling. (Jade Robertson)

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Illegal immigrant Mary Hounga can claim discrimination, says landmark Supreme Court ruling. (Jade Robertson)

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This article, published by the Telegraph, details about an illegal immigrant called Mary Hounga (who has been a victim of employment discrimination) and how she can bring court actions against her employer for discrimination.

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But the court heard she was abused with "violence and threats" and never received her £50 a week payment, and was ultimately thrown out by Mrs Allen in July 2008 following an argument about the children's supper.

She was found in a supermarket car park, alone and distressed, and taken into care. Later that year she took the Allens to an employment tribunal and made a claims on a number of grounds including race discrimination and unfair dismissal.

The Nigerian partially won the tribunal against the Allens and was awarded £6,187 in compensation for "injury to her feelings".

But that decision was set aside by the Court of Appeal in May 2012 in a ruling which also said: "The illegality of the contract of employment formed a material part of Miss Hounga's complaint and that to uphold it would be to condone the illegality."

A panel of five justices of the Supreme Court led by Baroness Hale, the deputy president, unanimously allowed a further appeal by Miss Hounga.

The judges said there was an "insufficiently close connection" between her immigration offences and her claim for discrimination.

The case will be sent back to an employment tribunal for a new hearing, the judges added.

Aidan McQuade, director of Anti-Slavery International which supported Miss Hounga, said it was an "historic" case.

"We are happy that the court recognised that trafficked people have the right to claim damages from their traffickers even if their status in the UK is irregular," said Mr McQuade.

"The court emphasised that the UK needs to honour its obligations under international law and protect the rights of victims of trafficking irrespective of their immigration status.

"If someone is coerced or forced into an illegal employment, they are victims of crime and their rights should be protected."

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Illegal immigrant Mary Hounga can claim discrimination, says landmark Supreme Court ruling

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But the court heard she was abused with "violence and threats" and never received her £50 a week payment, and was ultimately thrown out by Mrs Allen in July 2008 following an argument about the children's supper. She was found in a supermarket car park, alone and distressed, and taken into care.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/right-to-rent-immigration-checks-discrimination-a7576716.html