The Refugee Crisis, The UK and US Elections and the Birth of Restriction

From Suella Braverman's adherence to Rwanda, to white anxieties about Asians in the gold rush, the history of immigration restriction is relatively short, but thick.

Miss Braverman seems immunised from consequences and busily pulling up the snaky ladder of immigration behind her. Britain’s first Home Secretary to have served two terms in less than a week has insisted that she will maintain the long term plan to temporarily house refugees to the UK in luxury hotels in Rwanda. Do they have luxury hotels? How we got he…