UK leader sorry for Caribbean citizens immigration mix-up

Theresa May catches out 'loose bowling' Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs

Theresa May catches out 'loose bowling' Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs

She has never left the country, so has never needed a British passport.

Paulette Wilson, a 61 year-old cook who worked in the kitchens at the House of Commons, was held at Yarl's Wood immigration centre for a week in October and was only saved from deportation after her MP intervened.

A man known to the press as Albert Thompson arrived from Jamaica as a teenager and has been working as a mechanic and paying taxes for three decades.

There is a particularly cruel twist of fate in the heart-breaking cases of people like Albert Thompson, who is facing a £54,000 healthcare bill.

"I'm making a demand that she stops the deportations, respects those who have given decades to our communities, and we insist that she confirm the legal status of the Windrush generation and their children once and for all". The Commonwealth citizens were invited to fill labor shortages after World War II and more than 500,000 answered the call.

But previous year, when he was working as a special needs teaching assistant, he was let go because he couldn't provide proof of his legal living status.

"Heads must roll over this and the home secretary and immigration minister [Caroline Nokes] must consider their positions".

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said: "It is an absolute scandal that the Home Office doesn't even know how many people they have wrongly deported". The immigration minister in an interview said they had.

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'People should not be concerned about this - they have the right to stay and we should be reassuring them of that, ' she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. This is their department - they should know who has been deported, where to and why.

More than 100 MPs from across the parties have signed a letter to Theresa May asking for urgent action.

Reports suggested that Mrs May had rejected a request from 12 Caribbean leaders to discuss the issue. These talks must result in a concrete change of policy. He has applied to the Home Office and been refused twice.

Amelia Gentleman's article (Rudd's U Turn: At last an end to the staggering heartlessness, 17 April) rightly welcomes the belated government U-turn over the Home Office's appalling treatment of the Windrush generation. Tens of thousands of Windrush children have been affected and subjected to perverse tests (including being asked for four pieces of documentation for every year of residency) that few of us could ever hope to pass.

Ah, this is the 'hostile environment'. The Immigration Act removed protections that had been in place without parliamentary scrutiny or debate. "As Caribbean leaders we have to accept that in good faith".

The team will work across departments to find the documentary evidence that government has, in a similar way to how the Home Office intends to offer settled status to European Union citizens after Brexit, including looking to track information such as national insurance numbers. Their treatment of commonwealth citizens does not inspire confidence that they can do this effectively, or stick to their word.

The row, which one MP called a "national shame", has been hugely embarrassing for the government as it coincides with this week's meeting of the 53 Commonwealth heads of government in London.

"The Government must immediately guarantee that anyone who comes forward to clarify their status should not face deportation or detention, because as things stand today there are thousands of people who are too anxious about their future to come forward".

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