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Government's ‘cruel’ immigration laws ‘disproportionately impacting Britain’s black community’
A protest against the Tories' hostile environment policies outside the Home Office in London [Global Justice Now]

THE government’s “cruel” detention and deportation laws have “disproportionately impacted Britain’s black community,” a campaign group told MPs today.

Hearing evidence, ministers were told that the new immigration Bill still contains “every aspect” of the hostile environment policies that caused the Windrush scandal.

Detention Action director Bella Sankey said the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill, which passed its second reading in the Commons last month, will extend these policies to EU citizens. 

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