Will The New Immigration Bill Be A Race Relations Nightmare?

Under proposed new anti-immigration curbs both Property Tenants and the Sick could be turned away by doctors and landlords because of the colour of their skin, say Liberty.

The new Immigration Bill, which is to be published this week, will state that GPs and Landlords will now have to check that patients and tenants have a legal right to be in the UK.

Fears that this could create race tensions in the UK, by deed of a person's skin colour, will hopefully not become a reality of the changes.

Fines of up to £3,000 could be given to landlords who do not conduct thorough background checks.

The same goes for doctors too. They will now have to check that their patients are allowed to be in the UK under the new reforms.

Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, called the Bill 'nasty'. She told the Murnaghan programme that the new Immigration Bill and its changes could lead to a "race relations nightmare".

She explained how the new Bill and the reforms could see patients and tenants with "brown" faces being turned away, purely on the basis of the colour of their skin.

On the penalty for not conducting background checks, Chakrabarti said: "they will start to check people who look brown regardless of whether they are British or not."

She continued to explain how flat finding is hard enough but it now has an added pressure if you are not white.

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