THREAD on #hostileenvironment This ruling is yet another damning indictment of the racist culture and policies of the Home Office. It could not be clearer. Everyone knows it. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/25/home-office-broke-equalities-law-with-hostile-environment-measures
A set of policies explicitly called “the hostile environment”, aimed at migrants: how could it be anything else? https://www.jcwi.org.uk/the-hostile-environment-explained
@libertyhq has produced a comprehensive guide to the #hostileenvironment http://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Hostile-Environment-Guide-–-update-May-2019_0.pdf
Our specific campaign has been to oppose (and mostly defeat) one aspect of the hostile environment agenda: gathering data in schools and then letting the Home Office use it against parents and children. https://www.schoolsabc.net/2018/04/we-won/
This happened in April 2018, over two years ago. https://schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-ends-divisive-pupil-nationality-data-collection/
Many other campaigns and organisations have been fighting against the #hostileenvironment for years. Below some examples of the amazing work that has been ongoing since Theresa May announced the #hostileenvironment agenda in 2012
@DocsNotCops have been fighting the #hostileenvironment raising awareness and providing support for patients and professionals. Read more about their work here http://www.docsnotcops.co.uk/about/#PatientsNotPassports
@UnisNotBorders continue supporting students and staff in universities facing immigration problems due to the #hostileenvironment https://twitter.com/unisnotborders/status/1321401172746477568
Together Against Prevent is a coalition working against Prevent Duty http://togetheragainstprevent.org
You can follow their work on @netpol here you can access their 60-page report on the policing of this summer’s #BlackLivesMatter
protests in the UK https://twitter.com/netpol/status/1326789325653069824

The #windrushscandal is only one example of how the #hostileenvironment works. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/19/windrush-two-years-on-british-victims-describe-long-waits-and-abysmal-payouts
@JCWI_UK has been fighting the unlawful treatment of immigrants for over 50 years! They continue to work against the #hostileenvironment in many ways: fighting deportations https://twitter.com/jcwi_uk/status/1331287089028214785
raising awareness on the experiences of migrant workers https://www.jcwi.org.uk/in-the-gaps-experiences-of-migrant-workers-in-the-pandemic
Holding gvt accountable for their infringement of human rights https://twitter.com/jcwi_uk/status/1330224746324242432
We welcome @JCWI_UK reminder that the #hostileenvironment ‘is not only dangerous, it is unlawful’ https://twitter.com/JCWI_UK/status/1331510477889921025?s=20
The response from the Home Office in the guardian piece also confirms what anyone could have told you: they have no intention of changing, under this Home Secretary or indeed any imaginable Home Secretary.
This will never be more than a token rap on the knuckles, and no arm of the British state will ever truly hold another to account. Sooner or later we will have to #AbolishTheHomeOffice