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May wants huge extension of her broken, nasty & ultimately counter-productive migration enforcement regime to citizens of UK's neighbours 1/
May wants EU cits & families under her stupidly complex, incomprehensible rules evolved over years to hide rights & procedures from ppl 2/
When UK joined EU, immigration rules for spouses in UK were these 4 paragraphs.
Now they're this tangled mess > gov.uk/guidance/immig… 3/
Now they're this tangled mess > gov.uk/guidance/immig… 3/
When UK joined EEC (but lets call it EU for ease) every child born in UK was born British, unless father was diplomat or enemy soldier 4/
Since 1983, under Thatcher's British Nationality Act, UK-born children of EU cits arent British - unless one has *permanent* residence 5/
So now, enforcing officials really do check to catch young adults born and lived here their whole lives, who find out they're not British 6/
Migrants in UK have to pay tens of thousands of £ to Govt and courts and lawyers, just because the rules are so complex & badly applied. 7/
Parliament must now insist on clear, simple immigration rules so everyone can understand them & see they are fair and justified 8/
Ministers must instruct Home Office staff to be pragmatic - end detention & long procedures for people who cant be deported 9/
Until now, few EU citizens have been caught in this web of deliberate confusing, threatening bureacracy. May wants this to change. 10/
May *wants* EU citizens fearing the Home Office. The mistake on the form. The missed deadline. The warning letter. The knock on the door 11/
May *wants* migrants in fear: she knows no other way to do migration policy; & she wants to please her ethno-nationalist base of haters 12/
It doesnt have to be this way. From centre-right to far-left, people dont want friends, family, neighbours to be treated this way. 13/
UK public has never debated its immigration rules. Parliament rarely stops to read them. This is our chance to change that. 14/
With May's tiny majority, an alliance for fair immigration rules, backed by EU & non-EU migrants, could see a radically different scheme 15/
Every child born in UK to be a citizen from birth. The right of every legal resident to be joined by spouse, children & elderly parents. 16/
All immigration rules to be in clear, simple English. Fees to be limited to cost recovery. Customer-service to be Home Office priority. 17/
An end to the hostile environment that frightens vulnerable people so they wont report crime or seek medical help. 18/
Migration policy to be taken out of Home Office: bc when & where Brits & residents move is main challenge for planning & services.19/
May doesnt want debate. But Britain needs one: fair policies for family, friends and neighbours from abroad and with have ties there. 20/20
