Properly damning from independent inspectors @IndependentCI on Home Office indifference to the impact of the hostile environment: gov.uk/government/new… 
Home Office has collected less than 40% of fines levied on employers and raising level of fine has *reduced* effectiveness because smaller employers (who bear the brunt) are forced out of business:
And voluntary (and enforced) returns have *fallen* since hostile environment was introduced, the opposite of what was intended. While thinking about that, consider also the appalling price that was paid by the Windrush generation for this ill conceived policy.
Seems like a good moment to mention that my article with @MBEGriffiths mapping and analysing the hostile environment in Critical Social Policy has just been published and is open access journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
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