Italian woman visiting family was locked up in detention centre as they waited at the airport, Guardian told
EU citizens arriving in UK being locked up and expelled
Britain’s hostile regime for potential EU migrants is traumatising visitors caught in its web and provoking further worries for European families receiving visits from relatives, according to accounts provided to the Guardian.
The slightest suspicion that someone may be entering Britain to work is often enough for them to be locked up, held at detention centres for up to a week and then expelled to wherever they have travelled from, some of those caught up by the policy have said. Complaints from relatives and host families in the UK have either gone unanswered, or been ignored by the Home Office and some local MPs, they say.