The Home Office has placed immigration officers in child social services and dozens of other local authority departments, in an arrangement that has raised concerns...That there's not enough?
...about the ability of the most vulnerable to seek support, the Guardian can reveal.
Why would it? Unless, of course, by 'most vulnerable' you mean illegals and overstayers. Still, any new initiative would be welc...
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The on-site immigration officer service was reported by the Observer in early 2019.
So it's been running for three years?
The revelation that the Home Office was “hiring out” immigration officials to enforce the government’s hostile environment policy was met with outrage from critics, leading many local authorities to eject the officers, and the Home Office to remove information about the service from government websites.
Any local authority that did this should have gone straight to the back of the queue for any government funding...
However, the service has continued to operate. Records released in response to FoI requests reveal that at the end of 2021, 12 local authorities plus HS2 and TfL still had immigration officers working within them on behalf of the Home Office, including five where officers had been placed specifically in children’s services.The OUTRAGE! in the article is led by shadow minister for immigration, Stephen Kinnock, Mary Atkinson, campaigns officer at the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants and Colin Yeo, an immigration law barrister.
Do they bother to ask Mr or Mrs Average in the street whether they think it's a good idea? Reader, they do not.
They just expect them to pay eye-watering levels of tax to fund every Tomazs, Dhama and Harsimer who comes ashore at Dover...
