Activities
In the month of April 2006, the network held several protests notably outside the Detention centres at Harmondsworth and Colnbrook.
On 7 October 2006, an internationally co-ordinated 'Transnational Day of Action Against Migration Controls' of which the No Border Network was the central part, saw protests across the world.
On 18 December 2007, to coincide with the UN International Migrants Day, the network carried out a co-ordinated blockade of Border and Immigration Agency (now UK Border Agency) offices in Bristol, Portsmouth, Newcastle and Glasgow to prevent dawn raids by immigration officers from taking place. This form of action has been repeated across the UK by the network several times since.
On 24 October 2008, Phil Woolas, UK Minister of State for Borders and Immigration was subject to a pieing by No Borders activists following his controversial comments on population control.
The Network has also held demonstrations against ID cards, the International Organisation for Migration, and against arms companies, linking conflict and refugees.
In February 2010 No Borders groups from the UK and France opened a large centre for refugees sleeping rough in Calais, France, under the name "Kronstadt Hangar".
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