Charity issues guide to foiling Home Office raids on illegal immigrants while taking taxpayer cash

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The taxpayer-funded migrants charity has published a guide on how to thwart Home Office swoops on suspected illegal immigrants.

By MARK HOOKHAM, ASSISTANT EDITOR (INVESTIGATIONS) and NICK CONSTABLE, REPORTER

Published: 22:44 GMT, 14 November 2026 | Updated: 22:49 GMT, 14 November 2026

A taxpayer-funded migrants charity has published a guide to thwarting Home Office swoops on suspected illegal immigrants, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Despite receiving more than £1million in legal aid since 2019 and £47,015 from the Home Office itself, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants is working with a network of Left-wing councillors to obstruct lawful enforcement raids.

The manual, issued through its 'migrant champions network', is titled Resisting Immigration Raids – A Guide For Local Councillors.

Written by the charity's advocacy and campaigns director Griff Ferris, it urges councillors to obstruct lawful Home Office immigration raids while they are in progress.

It tells local politicians to 'challenge' officers on the spot, film them and 'walk away' with those being targeted to disrupt the action.

It also proposes that councillors press local authorities into refusing to cooperate with the Home Office.

In 2021, Mr Ferris took part in a blockade of a removal centre at Gatwick Airport, aimed at stopping a deportation flight carrying convicted killers and rapists to Jamaica.

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