question: Before Covid-19 around a quarter of the UK?s rough sleeping population were non-UK nationals, with the proportion rising above half in some metropolitan areas. The UK government?s targeting of rough-sleeping EU citizens for ?administrative removal? between 2010?2017 reflected a trend in social policy towards enforcement- rather than support-based ?solutions? to migrant homelessness. Changes to the Immigration Rules in late 2020 to make rough sleeping a ground for refusal or cancellation of permission to be in the UK represent a revival of this tendency. This commentary analyses UK policies targeting rough sleeping non-UK nationals for deportation from a practitioner?s perspective ? the author ran a rights project for homeless migrants between 2018 and 2021.