Results for hostile environment

November 29, 2019

Mobile fingerprint scanners bring a dangerous new front to the hostile environment

Police officers are being used to enforce a discredited hostile environment as tens of thousands of people have their immigration status checked, creating a new barrier to vital services.

February 8, 2021

Vaccine amnesty not enough – the hostile environment must end

If the Government is serious about ensuring everyone can get a COVID vaccine then it will end the entire hostile environment for good.

November 12, 2018

Legal victory against Government’s hostile environment

A backroom deal allowing the Home Office to request patient data from the NHS to target people for deportation has been scrapped following a legal challenge from Migrants' Rights Network and Liberty.

November 5, 2019

Councils must resist becoming complicit in the hostile environment

The Government is trying to turn homelessness workers into border guards. Here are four things we're asking councils to do to resist becoming complicit in the hostile environment.

November 5, 2019

Councils must resist becoming complicit in the hostile environment

The Government is trying to turn homelessness workers into border guards. Here are four things we're asking councils to do to resist becoming complicit in the hostile environment.

NHS hostile environment data-sharing

June 29, 2020

Warm words on Windrush aren’t enough

There has been a lot talk about the injustice of the Windrush scandal in recent weeks. But we are still a long way off seeing words matched with meaningful action.

December 14, 2018

Liberty and ABC lodge complaint to get Government data on foreign children deleted

Information obtained by hostile environment data sharing practices needs to be deleted.

December 17, 2020

Police Inspectorate backs call for law change to protect migrant victims and witnesses of crime

May 2, 2018

Sajid Javid can’t just change Home Office language – he must challenge a rotten culture

Sajid Javid is going to have to do more than change the language of the Home Office if he is to reverse the effects of the department’s hostile environment policies.

November 13, 2019

Data watchdog slams DfE for mishandling children’s data after Liberty legal action

The Department for Education has made schools unknowingly and unwittingly complicit in the Government’s hostile environment.

March 1, 2019

Liberty helps defeat government’s discriminatory Right to Rent scheme

The High Court has ruled that the Home Office’s Right to Rent scheme is discriminatory.