Joining forces: HASL with migrant solidarity and housing activists protesting Home Office deportations of Eastern
European rough sleepers.
As we will see below in Section 5, the approach is likely to have got tougher since this document was produced, and
European rough sleepers can now be marked for detention immediately.5
In May 2016, the Home Office toughened the rules so that
European rough sleepers can be arrested for deportation if found sleeping rough on just one night.
Not exact matches
EU and other
European Economic Area (EEA) nationals are the main targets, as they make up nearly half of London
rough sleepers.
St Mungo's outreach workers should assess the nationality of all
rough sleepers they encounter and, if they are
European citizens, also assess whether they are «exercising their treaty rights»: