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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."
DIANE ABBOTT MP argues that Labour’s proposals contained in the recent white paper won’t actually bring down immigration numbers or win support from Reform voters — but they will succeed in making politics more nasty and poisonous
As Starmer flies to Albania seeking deportation camps while praising Giorgia Meloni, KEVIN OVENDEN warns that without massive campaigns rejecting this new overt government xenophobia, Britain faces a soaring hard right and emboldened fascist thugs on the streets
Unions and campaigners condemn Prime Minister's ‘far-right’ rhetoric and new immigration policies
Government accused of scapegoating ethnic minorities after Home Office reveals plan to publish the nationalities of foreign criminals