If you create a hostile environment for illegal immigrants it means a presumption by officials against anyone with gaps in their documentation. It means making it hard for people who “are British”, as Ms May put it, to prove it, and it means preventing them from working or claiming benefits while they try to do so.
Which is why we are disappointed by the prime minister’s refusal to countenance a change to the hostile environment policy in an interview with The Independent on her trip to the G7 summit in Canada. She refused three times to say it should change, arguing all that was required was it for to be carried out more carefully so people are not “mistakenly caught up”. [...]
Since the outcry over the Windrush cases, the Home Office has made the hostile environment less hostile. People whose attempts to confirm their status had been delayed and disbelieved for years suddenly found themselves issued with papers after short interviews – something a reasonable bureaucracy would have been capable of doing all along.
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