Sunday, 13 December 2020

Councils Vow To Defy UK Rule On Deporting Migrant Rough Sleepers

 A growing number of councils, charities and other organisations have pledged to boycott new Home Office rules to criminalise and deport migrant rough sleepers. The Home Office changed the UK immigration rules on 1 December, although it has not yet published guidance about how to apply them. Local authorities, MPs, anti-trafficking organisations and homeless organisations including Crisis and St Mungo’s are warning that the rules, which could withhold leave to remain from migrants found to be rough sleeping or revoke it from those who have it, will punish and criminalise some of the most vulnerable. Read more on the Guardian website.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/10/councils-defy-uk-rule-deporting-migrant-rough-sleepers-home-office

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