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Priti Patel
MPS were set to consider a petition calling for an amnesty for undocumented migrants last night as campaigners prepared to rally to demand an end to the hostile environment.
The debate, due to take place later this evening, comes after more than 100,000 people signed the petition demanding that Tory ministers help those with no criminal record to “live their lives as normal human beings” while paying tax to help society.
Activists from Voice of Immigrants UK and other campaign groups including Regularise, a grassroots collective made up of migrants and British citizens, were due to converge on Downing Street as MPs met in Westminster Hall.
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