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The surveillance state is to widen by requiring landlords, employers, bankers and DVLA staff to check for illegal immigrants, Home Secretary Theresa May announced yesterday.
Ministers said that measures in the new Immigration Bill would stop migrants abusing public services, deter illegal immigrants from coming to Britain and make it easier to remove people who should not be here.
But the reforms have been slammed across the board as "callow," "nasty," "unworkable" and "the politics of hate and fear."
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues