Immigration raids - maps & reports

Raids heat map

This heat map shows areas across the UK where 6 or more immigration raids occurred between 1st January 2022 and 30th September 2023. The darker an area is, the more raids occurred in that area. We gained this data through FOI requests to the Home Office, which was broken down by postcode.Read more

We did this to see which areas experienced the most raids and try to understand why: immigration raids have typically occurred in heavily racialised areas, but the impact of different Immigration Enforcement operations can change the areas targeted, e.g. areas where businesses tend to be located rather than predominantly residential areas. For more information on these reasons and changes from previous years, please see our report below.

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Raids report

Our new report Immigration Raids: An Anatomy of Racist Intimidation dissects the secretive and opaque nature of Immigration Enforcement’s intelligence gathering, guidance on multi-agency operations and police cooperation.

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Reporting tool and map

Use this form to log immigration raids in your area. The information from this form will be checked weekly and imported into this map.

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