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UK: Immigration Bill becomes law

14 May 2016

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"Yesterday (12 May 2016), the Immigration Bill 2015-16 received Royal Assent, which means it now becomes the 2016 Immigration Act.

In those words, a great deal is bound up.

As we have written previously, the Act involves a hardening and an extending of the measures designed to create a ‘Hostile Environment ‘ for migrants brought in by 2014 Immigration Act, including:

Cutting access to justice... Extending internal border enforcement... Criminalising irregular migration..."

See the full text: The Bill becomes an Act: what’s been won, and what’s been lost (Right to Remain, link)

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