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Trevor Phillips, the former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, who uncovered the document, said: 'It is so cowardly that the Home Office is expressing surprise and saying this scandal is a awful mistake by some junior person yet this shows ministers must have been told that this could happen.' Ministers would not have been required to sign off the impact assessment, said the Home Office.
Yesterday it emerged thousands of landing card slips recording the arrival of migrants to the United Kingdom were destroyed by the Home Office eight years ago - when Theresa May was in charge of the department.
They say they're going to take two weeks to sort things out, so I've called the Home Office helpline and will see how they take it from there.
At a meeting in Downing Street, May told representatives of the 12 Caribbean members of the Commonwealth that she took the treatment of the so-called Windrush generation "very seriously". But the destruction of the landing slips did not begin until October 2010, when Mrs May was Home Secretary.
"Theresa May must apologise for this mess which has taken place as a direct outcome of the hostile environment she created".
"So from a Trini point of view it's an important milestone and presents the opportunity for people to revisit the presence of people from the Caribbean community and the contributions that they have made to the development of British society", Wong said.
Thousands of Commonwealth migrants who arrived before 1973 are required to prove they have the right to stay under an immigration crackdown announced by Mrs May as home secretary in 2014.
The former worker, who is not named by the newspaper, said managers were warned by staff that destroying the cards would make it harder to check the records of older Caribbean-born residents experiencing difficulties proving their right to remain in the UK.
"I've lived here for 18 years, I know loads of people who have been sent home just because they don't have the right paperwork".
Mr Corbyn said: "This is a shameful episode and the responsibility for it lies firmly at the Prime Minister's door". She has been forced to make an apology on the eve of today's Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, which is centred on discussing the strengthening Britain's trading relationships.
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Mrs May hit back with a reference to an impassioned Commons debate on Tuesday when a series of Labour MPs rose to condemn anti-Semitism within its own ranks.
The exchanges came as it emerged 49 people had on Tuesday contacted a new Home Office hotline set up to help Commonwealth citizens whose immigration status has been challenged.
Some arrived on their parents' documentation and never formally applied for British citizenship or a passport. It's a culture from the top, and it has been a bit rich for Amber Rudd to blame civil servants. "Now I'm being told I'm not British, because there is no record of me".
UK Prime Minister Theresa May issues an apology to Caribbean leaders for the treatment of immigrants, but is it enough?
"My view is that if there is an acceptance that a wrong was done then there should be a process of restoration", he told ITV's Good Morning Britain.
I came here on a British passport.
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He said there had been a "sense of betrayal", among Trinidadians and other Caribbean nationals by the initial decision to deport, as it was felt that 70 years after the first Windrush immigrants arrived in Britain "nothing has happened and nothing has been done for all the years, although Britain was aware of the situation".
In the following decades, numerous Windrush generation, their children and grandchildren would be involved in fighting against the racist policies of Margaret Thatcher and the rest of May's political forebears. "They have got to be assisted so they can carry on with their lives".
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