The government has started sharing data with banks and building societies so they can identify illegal immigrants and shut down their bank accounts to prevent them from working in the UK.
Illegal immigrants will have their bank accounts shut down in a new crackdown by the Home Office - who have been accused of"demonising" asylum seekers.announced it began sharing data with the financial sector on Thursday so it can refuse to open new bank accounts and close existing accounts of people who are in the UK illegally.
Human rights charity Amnesty International UK accused the government of using private companies to impose its"hugely damaging, immigration policy". "It is part of an exercise in socially excluding and isolating a mass of people regardless of their individual circumstances - including where those culpable for why people are in these circumstances are human traffickers, other abusers and even the Home Office.
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