One in five immigration staff cite discrimination

Immigration staff are seeing rising levels of discrimination in the workplace, an internal survey has revealed. Employees at the Border Force and Immigration Enforcement, the Home Office body whose targets for “illegal immigration” removals were at the centre of the Windrush scandal, have said they face increasing discrimination from colleagues.

The findings raise questions about a failure to address ongoing problems within the department, highlighted by a damning parliamentary report in March. The recent survey of civil servants found that one in five immigration enforcement employees had “personally experienced discrimination at work”.