Experts warn that ending free movement for EU citizens on day one of Brexit is impossible

The Migration Observatory at Oxford University said that ending free movement on day one of a no deal Brexit is impossible because it “can’t be enforced.

The plan, confirmed by ministers on Monday, was dismissed by the respected Migration Observatory at Oxford University because employers will be unable to carry out the necessary checks.

The organisation representing more than 3 million EU citizens in the UK, The 3 Million, has raised the alarm that it “will open the door to discrimination” because it will be impossible to distinguish between those residents and new arrivals.

Now that warning is echoed by Madeleine Sumption, the Observatory’s director, who said more than 2 million EU citizens are yet to apply to the “settled status” scheme.

 

Via The Independent/ The Migration Observatory

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