The following is a list of some of the people and organisations that have signed open letters condemning government policy and media scapegoating
Individuals: Tony Benn; Jeremy Corbyn MP; Alan Simpson MP; Ian Gibson MP; Iain Coleman MP; Dorothy Grace Elder MSP; Darren Johnson GLA Assembly Member; Bill Morris, General Secretary TGWU; John Edmonds, General Secretary GMB; Bob Crow, General Secretary RMT; Mick Cash, Deputy General Secretary RMT; Greg Tucker, Branch Secretary Waterloo RMT; Andy Gilchrist, General Secretary FBU; Ken Cameron, former General Secretary FBU; Bill Speirs, General Secretary STUC; John Foster, General Secretary NUJ; Dave Toomer, President NUJ; Alex Pascall, chair NUJ Black Members; Aidan White, General Secretary International Federation of Journalists; Ed Sweeney, General Secretary UNIFI; John Sheldon, General Secretary PCS; Hugh Tanning, Deputy General Secretary PCS; Tina Downs, Vice-President elect NATFHE; Mark Seddon, editor Tribune; Cohn Vane, National Executive Committee MSF; Ken Savage, General Secretary Greater London Pensioners Association; Jack Sprung, General Secretary British Pensioners & Trade Union Action Association; lmran Khan, Stephen Lawrence family solicitor; Steve Silver, co-editor Searchlight; Sukhdev Reel, mother of murdered student Ricky Reel; John Wadham, director Liberty; Liz Davies, chair Socialist Alliance; Bruce Kent, Jonathan Steele, Vivek Chaudhary, Seumas Milne, Paul Foot and Gary Younge, Guardian columnists; Mick Chatwin, legal director Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants; Mark Steel; Mark Thomas; Jeremy Hardy; Suresh Grover, chair National Civil Rights Movement.
Organisations: National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns; Socialist Workers Party; West Midlands Anti-Deportation Campaign; National Civil Rights Movement; Monitoring Project; Onibiyo Family Anti-Deportation Campaign; Europe Roma Organisation; Green Party of England and Wales; FBU; BECTU; AUT; Brent East CLP; Tribune; Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers.