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The Nationality & Borders Bill strikes fear, breeds suspicion and undermines community cohesion

THE Nationality and Borders Bill is currently making its way through Parliament and the House of Lords on its way to becoming law.

Let’s be in no doubt and call it what it is — a further extension of the hostile environment policies the government has been peddling since 2010.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has condemned the Bill — a Bill which is at odds with any notion of common decency, democracy, mutual respect, liberty and the rule of law: fundamental British values.

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