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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8491598" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean, tell me about it?My wife and I fought a three-year legal battle against the Home Office because of the introduction of the "Hostile Environment" policy leading to some idiot at the Home Office refusing her leave to remain on spurious grounds, and then them trying to deport her. Eventually we won, because just before we went to court, the HO went "OOPS SORRY! ALL A MISTAKE!!!" after all sort of horrible threats, deeply invasive investigations and demands, loss of potential earnings (which you can't even sue for, note) and nasty phone calls and so on, paid us our costs (as the court required), and gave her ILR (now a citizen, thank goodness).I don't think that's anything new. The only novel thing is that Brexit has invalidated vast numbers of people's right to remain, and the Home Office, still being completely incompetent and unfit for purpose, and still having a "Hostile Environment" attitude, is probably trying to deport people who have quite properly and rightly applied for settled status and so on.So your friends have my sympathies and my rage, but I don't see this as novel racism myself, rather something bad now impacts even more people.</blockquote>