| Comment | yes, the reason is the Hostile Environment policy, to win votes based on appearing tough on immigration
it's all theatre, again for any cases where there is actual criminal activity the police would deal with it as with any other crime committed by a UK resident
if you're giving the Home Office - the most dysfunctional arm of the state since it was completely fucked over by the Blair government under anti-terror legislation - the benefit of the doubt, I'm starting to suspect you haven't really worked in immigration! Even if you agree with UK immigration policy they're a total disaster at applying it
Just for shits and giggles it looks like we're starting to use forceful detention on EU workers who should be legally allowed to enter: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/13/eu-citizens-arriving-in-uk-being-locked-up-and-expelled |
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