“Here in the UK, the aim is to create a more hostile environment for illegal immigrants. May said at the time that the concept of “hostility” was first introduced in 2007 by then-new Labor Immigration Minister Liam Byrne.
Policies aimed at the “hostile environment” are intended to cut off undocumented immigrants’ access to any public service, including health services. Faced with such difficulties, May estimated that the immigrants would leave the UK voluntarily.
Culture of fear
Ten years after announcing its “hostile environment” policy strategy, leading immigration control groups fear that more pressure will be put on asylum seekers on British soil.
Political opponents It calls into question the outcome of this strategy and claims that it has destroyed many human lives.
The Association of Public and Commercial Services (SPC), which represents many Interior Ministry officials, is one of the organizations fighting against the key policies that are constantly being developed by the Ministry of the Interior: the repression of small boats used by asylum seekers in the English Channel and the relocation of some of these asylum seekers to Rwanda.
SPC General Secretary Mark Cervotka points out: “This government does not seem to have learned anything from the Windrush scandal. The SPC is not prepared to tolerate our members being placed in dangerous and traumatic situations where they can be asked to act illegally and be subjected to disciplinary action, ”Cervotka explained to the British publication. Defender.
Lucy Morton, professional officer for the Immigration Services Association, which represents Border Patrol, said: “The culture of fear has not changed. As a professional organization, the union maintains extensive contact with officials who are unable to express their concerns. ”
The Windrush scandal is about a large number of undocumented people living in the UK.
In 2020, the report of the Institute for Public Policy Research concluded The “hostile environment” policy encouraged racismIt affected legal immigrants in the United Kingdom and many immigrants who “severely damaged the reputation of the Home Office.”
At that point, the company changed practices.
Political Continuity
As of March 2022, independent analyst Wendy Williams continues to observe the department’s failure to reconsider its “hostile environment” policies, while the Home Office’s own data on anti-immigration policies does not appear to be successful.
Former Attorney General Shami Chakraborty says: “Ten years of hostile environment has wreaked havoc on ethnic relations, social cohesion and national pride. Use as a means of controlling hunger and suffering Windrush led directly to the scandal. Instead of learning from this stain on our recent history, The Incumbent ministers have taken the more popular far-right approach of ‘retreating’ the canal and ‘relocating’ pessimistic people to Rwanda. “.
By 2021, 28,526 people had registered to cross the English Channel in small boats – 8,404 by 2020.
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