A recent scandal outlined in the Guardian reported that former Commonwealth citizens are being threatened with deportation under a new hardline approach to British immigration policy. In this article, immigrants who have lived in the UK since the 1960s describe how they came to discover they were never naturalised and therefore would be treated as illegal immigrants by the home office. In one particular instance, a Paulette Wilson was sent to the infamous Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre. These stories only shed light on the latest chapter in a broader trend dating as far back as the influx of commonwealth migrants, originally encouraged to come to Britain as cheap labour. It seems to me that the Brexit and post-Brexit spike in anti-immigrant feeling is nothing new, despite the target somewhat shifting towards Middle Eastern refugees and Eastern European economic migrants, but is instead a natural progression of a culture of scapegoating, alienation and racism that has indiscriminately affected migrants of all colours and creeds thanks to government policy and media manipulation. I have done some research into the underlying policies and media tactics through which immigrants have been marginalised in order to understand how such draconian and outdated attitudes towards migrants have been able to flourish.