Government facing High Court challenge over 'hostile environment' immigration policy

Campaigners will next week go to the High Court to challenge a key part of the government's "hostile environment" policy on illegal immigration.The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) says the "right to rent" scheme, which requires landlords in England to check the immigration status of their tenants, encourages "systematic discrimination" against ethnic minorities and people without British passports.There has been renewed scrutiny of the policy in the wake of the Windrush scanda