Undocumented Germans? Diary of an EU citizen in the UK (22)
In post-Brexit Britain, we may have a situation whereas UK-based EU nationals who don’t comply with the new requirements for staying in the UK and are unwilling or unable to go back their country of origin (there are plenty of reasons for that) may become subject to immigration detention and removal en masse. It is perhaps an extreme scenario, but it also have some positive transformative potential in it may help us to humanise undocumented migrants and understand on a more equal footing their circumstances and aspirations. It may also provide a reminder to our politicians in Brussels, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Madrid etc. that one day in a not too distant future their own citizens may face in Britain a similar treatment to the one the EU and its member states are inflicting on undocumented people now. And if this is the case, crying outrage and indignation and claiming moral high ground may not work.
►https://nandosigona.info/2017/03/29/undocumented-germans-diary-of-an-eu-citizen-in-the-uk-22