Alarming stories have emerged of EU citizens being handcuffed at British airports, made to sleep in parked vans or prevented from accessing medication after being denied entry into the country under Brexit rules. Ana Silvestre, 20, an Italian and Brazilian dual national, was refused entry at Luton airport on 8 May together with her Brazilian husband. “When she called me, she was crying, and kept telling me that they were making them feel like criminals,” Silvestre’s sister said. Other travellers who have been turned away in recent months as the government’s “hostile environment” policy on immigration is applied to EU citizens have said they were also denied access to medication. “First they asked what I was doing in the UK and I said that I was visiting family friends,” she said.

Source: The Guardian May 17, 2021 16:41 UTC