Laura Devine quoted in Gazette discussing impact of hostile environment policies

1 April 2019

It is nearly a year since the full scale of the Windrush generation scandal broke – and dismay is palpable among practitioners who say the ‘callousness’ of Home Office policies is seeping into all areas of immigration. With 3.5 million EU nationals being brought into the immigration regime post-Brexit, they warn the potential for Windrush-style errors, coupled with the negativity created around migration, is damaging the government’s aspirations for a ‘Global Britain’.

Managing Partner, Laura Devine adds ‘the hostile environment measures have, in many ways, damaged relations within communities, harmed the UK’s reputation as a migrant-friendly and outward-looking nation open for business, and, ironically, helped to create a hostile environment for many of the very migrants who would benefit the UK.’

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