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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emily Dugan and Rajeev Syal

REVEALED: New hostile environment policies show windrush lessons not been learned | Rare Historical Photos

The Home Office
The Home Office has announced a taskforce with the aim of limiting the access of people without immigration status to essential services. Photograph: William Barton/Alamy

Home Office plans to reheat “thoroughly discredited” hostile environment policies show the government has not learned lessons from the Windrush scandal, immigration experts have said.

A taskforce to crack down on illegal immigration is being set up, the Home Office announced on Sunday. As well as blocking access to banking for those without immigration status, it intends to find new ways of checking individuals’ immigration status when they use schools or the NHS.

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