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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-citizens-brexit-deported-offences-crime-priti-patel-a9618476.html
"EU citizens will be deported for minor offences under Priti Patel’s post-Brexit immigration crackdown, despite having permission to stay, a leading lawyer has warned.
Rules that allow foreign offenders to be expelled only if they represent a threat to the UK will be beefed up to target persistent pickpockets and shoplifters, from January.
Crucially, the home secretary announced the change would apply to the 3 million-plus EU citizens in the UK in the process of being awarded settled status, which supposedly guarantees their right to stay."
In the Windrush generation this has caused a lot of misery, as small crimes are often committed by people that are already in a bad situation, they may have family/mental health issues etc. leading to families being split up and kids being deported to a place where they don't know the language.
And now they are applying this retrospectively to EUSS. I doesn't surprise me, sadly, but it's pretty shit nonethless.