Equalities watchdog to investigate hostile environment policy

Home Office measures that caused Windrush scandal potentially breached equality law, says EHRC

The Home Office is being investigated over whether it breached equality law when it introduced the hostile environment" immigration measures that caused catastrophic consequences for thousands of Windrush generation residents living legally in the UK.

As part of a drive to end the systemic and entrenched race inequalities that exist in our country", the Equality and Human Rights Commission will use its legal powers to examine whether, and how the Home Office complied with the public sector equality duty, when it implemented tough new immigration legislation aimed at making life extremely difficult for undocumented illegal immigrants.