BRITAIN’S immigration legislation is racist by design, with racialised people from its former colonies most affected by detentions, deportation, and deprivation of citizenship, a new report found today. 

Following the King’s Speech, which announced a new assault on human rights through the Border Security Bill, the Migrants Rights Network released a report examining the central roles that racism and colonialism play in immigration policies.

It points out that since it was created to manage colonial or plantation business in 1792, immigration legislation has existed to manage, regulate or prevent so-called “undesirables” from arriving and living in Britain.