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Determined to make good on the nativist promise of Brexit, it has embraced anti-migrant authoritarianism.
By Maya Goodfellow
Ms. Goodfellow is a British academic who has written widely on immigration, borders and racism. She is the author of âHostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats.â
April 1, 2021
Credit...Illustration by The New York Times; photographs by Getty Images
LONDON â Last week, as Britain focused on its gradual emergence from lockdown, the home secretary, Priti Patel, laid out the governmentâs âNew Plan for Immigration.â
The details were deeply sinister. Only those coming through resettlement schemes, who amount to less than 1 percent of refugees globally, would be welcomed. Everybody else, forced to take life-threateningly dangerous journeys, would be branded âillegalâ and aggressively penalized. They would be blocked from key state support, given diminished family reunion rights and be permanently liable for removal, even if granted asylum.
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