Refugee charities have slammed the UK government’s controversial new measures to tackle immigration and asylum seekers as “militarised”, saying the actions and rhetoric of the Home Office risks fuelling divisions and punishing those most in need of help. The Home Office announced on Wednesday plans to crack down on people arriving in small boats to the UK’s shores, which includes a new investigation and intelligence unit, expanding detention centres for failed asylum seekers, and “smashing criminal smuggling gangs”. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the government aims to increase the removal …