As MPs debate the Immigration Bill, we set out what needs to change:
1. The Home Secretary should not be given a blank cheque to write new rules. 
The Bill gives the Home Secretary astonishingly wide-ranging powers to write new rules. But an independent review into the Windrush scandal slammed Home Office policy-making, and found in the department an “unwillingness to listen to others’ perspective or take on board external scrutiny, which stemmed from an absolute conviction, rather than evidence.” MPs should not give the Home Secretary these “Henry VIII” powers.
2. Use this opportunity to fix some of the many issues already facing migrants.
The details of the future system have not been set out, with many important questions left unanswered. The UK immigration system is already deeply dysfunctional, with huge problems in the systems for settlement and citizenship, asylum, immigration enforcement and detention. These issues need to be urgently addr…