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United Kingdom apologises to 'Windrush' immigrants wrongly declared illegal

April 20, 2018 17:04·
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"It will lead to security, certainly for those who have been affected, and it is the kind of inclusive prosperity for which we stand as Commonwealth peoples", he said. But it has sparked concern about London´s ability to deal with millions of European citizens now living in Britain who want to stay after Britain leaves the European Union next year.

British Prime Minister Theresa May made a personal apology on Tuesday for the treatment of long-term United Kingdom residents from the Caribbean who have been asked to prove their right to stay in the country or face deportation.

In their appeal to minority voters, those pushing for Brexit promised that reducing immigration from Europe would mean that Britain could re-engage with her former empire, now known as the Commonwealth.

She regards the Commonwealth as the greatest success of her reign.

Mr Gove said the phrase "hostile environment" had been "paraded around as it it were somehow emblematic of Britain - it's not".

It is time to rethink the whole thing.

Despite a steady drumbeat of discontent over Windrush, Prime Minister May has been caught off-guard by the issue and forced into a series of apologies and admissions. "Because we are genuinely sorry for any anxiety that has been caused", she told the hastily-convened gathering. May has defended her position even against Conservative critics, frequently referencing the worldwide definition of migration that includes students.

A Home Office task force set up in response to the outcry is now looking at 113 cases as a result of calls to a new hotline.

Nationalist rhetoric was widely deployed by parties campaigning for Brexit.

"You can not create a climate and then not expect it to have consequences", he said.

In 2012, new rules were imposed by the British Prime Minister, Theresa May when she was the Home Secretary.

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Sally Daghlian, chief executive of Praxis Community Projects, says her organisation has supported more than 120 people who arrived from the Caribbean more than 50 years ago and have now been wrongly labelled as illegal immigrants.

May is under pressure to act after it emerged that thousands of people had been threatened with losing access to services such as the NHS, deportation and even detention if they fail to show valid documentation - however in many cases papers were never published.

"What the Home Office must do is allow officials to use their discretion in ways they haven't been allowed to use it before", she said.

Hancock, the culture secretary, said the government had been "very clear we have to put right the anxieties that many people of the Windrush generation have felt, and make sure we get those systems right".

Lord Kerslake added that it was "completely ridiculous" for Home Secretary Amber Rudd to try to blame civil servants for the Windrush situation.

As global alliances go, the Commonwealth is a loose network linking large economies like India, population 1.3bn, with tiny pacific states like Nauru, population 13,000.

The peer, who now advises Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, said Mrs May's approach to illegal immigration was seen by some ministers as "almost reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the way it's working".

What the Government wilfully refused to acknowledge were two aspects of this freakish and barbaric policy: that it was extremely harmful to community relations; and that a significant number of people would be caught in the dragnet who were not illegal at all.

"That was the worst, going to sign on and not knowing if you're going to come out", he said.

"It removes any kind of incentive for it to survive on its own merits". These were people the government invited to Britain as citizens from Commonwealth countries after WWII.

And it may well be that the Windrush row will not affect such calculations in the end. That report didn't cover all European Union countries however.

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