Lewisham’s Green council plans to officially collaborate with a group which seeks to ‘resist raids’ on illegal migrants ‘at all costs’, and has posted on its Instagram an illustration of a Home Office immigration enforcement van set on fire with its windows smashed. 

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At next week’s full council meeting, Hau-Yu Tam, the council’s cabinet member for ‘communities, sanctuary and healing’, has tabled a motion ‘to work with Lewisham Anti-Raids to support migrant businesses and those targeted by raids’ because ‘local and joined-up anti-raids resistance is a form of building care with Lewisham communities.’

The motion also declares that Lewisham will join with neighbouring Green-led Lambeth to create an ‘anti-raids sanctuary corridor… to improve… anti-raids resistance’ and will review council processes with ‘the aim of refusing to assist the Home Office or........

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