UK Home Office cannot be trusted, say EU citizens' rights groups
28 Aug 2017 5:11 PM GMT
Brussels: Campaign groups representing EU citizens seeking to protect their right to remain in the UK after Brexit have warned they will reject any deal that gives the Home Office a say in their future.
Grassroots campaign groups across the UK and Europe wrote to EU negotiators on Monday to say the Home Office cannot be trusted following last week's debacle when the department mistakenly sent up to 100 letters to EU nationals living in the UK ordering them to leave the country or face deportation.
"If serious errors like this can be made whilst the UK is still administering a system based on EU freedom of movement rights, what is likely to happen when it is running its own system, having 'taken control again'?" asked British in Europe, a coalition of 11 citizen campaign groups across the EU and the UK.
The3million, which campaigns for the rights of EU citizens settled in the UK, said it was also informing the government it was officially opposing the offer of a new immigration category of "settled status" post-Brexit.
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