Birmingham immigration checks netting more Brits than any other nationality: http://birminghameastside.com/2017/10/09/birmingham-immigration-checks-netting-more-brits-than-any-other-nationality/ Report by Jonny Jacobsen, Carmen Aguilar and Victòria Oliveres.
In October 2017 we reported on figures showing British people being stopped by immigration officers over the past five years. In Birmingham, Britons were one out of every four questioned.
The data was obtained as part of a nationwide investigation by The Bristol Cable and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. The Home Office only released the figures after seven-month working on a freedom of information request.
The files below show the information used by the Birmingham Eastside team to create the visualisation.
Both charts were designed using Datawrapper.
- Pie chart: Nationalities stopped in Birmingham by Immigration Officers between January 2012 and January 2017. Category "other" includes 104 nationalities.
- Stacked bar chart: Percentage of British and non British questioned by Immigration Officers in each of the 11 cities analysed over the past five years.
Here are some of the pieces published by several news websites around the country.
- The Bristol Cable: Brits most ‘stopped and checked’ for immigration crimes they can’t commit
- The Guardian: One in five stopped by immigration enforcement is a UK citizen, figures show
- The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Thousands of British citizens swept up in immigration spot checks
- Yorkshire Evening Post: 1 in 3 of all immigration stop checks in Leeds are on British citizens
- The Ferret: Home Office accused of racial profiling in Scottish immigration “raids”