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Home Office faces council rebellion over deportation of homeless non-British nationals
A woman walks past tents of the homeless in Victoria, London

THE government is facing a council revolt over its “morally wrong” new policy of deporting non-British nationals for being homeless. 

The new policy, which came into force on December 1, makes rough sleeping grounds for refusal or cancellation of someone’s permission to stay in the country. 

Rights groups have widely criticised the new rule as “effectively criminalising migrant destitution.” 

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