BBC News: Windrush generation - May to meet Caribbean leaders after apology
"Prime Minister Theresa May will seek to reassure Caribbean leaders later that the Windrush generation will not be deported over paperwork issues.
The government has apologised after it emerged that some people who arrived from the Commonwealth decades ago as children were now being incorrectly identified as illegal immigrants.
The home secretary has announced a new taskforce to help those affected."
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After the first rumblings of the "Albert Thompson" case a few weeks back, the issue of undocumented child migrants who arrived in the UK from the Commonwealth up to the 1970s seems to have exploded quite spectacularly.
Clearly this is a situation that needs to be sorted out quickly and humanely, but I'm a bit troubled by politicians falling over themselves to either abjectly apologise for it (cf. Amber Rudd), or make out this is some massive injustice (cf. David Lammy).
We are talking about people who have been in the country for 40 years and upwards, who are more than aware that they were born abroad, and yet have never regularised their nationality status, even though by definition there seem to have been a much larger number who did that long ago.
It stands to reason that none of them have ever left/returned to the UK since they first arrived, as they won't have had passports. Sure, not all of the UK population take holidays abroad, but a hell of a lot do. How many were avoiding that, because they knew perfectly well that their status was unclear?
It seems to me that the bulk of those affected may well have been sticking their heads in the sand for decades, avoiding the issue, and hoping their own status never came to light. Most of them could probably have avoided the sort of unpleasant and overbearing attention they have recently experienced at the hands of immigration authorities of late.
"Prime Minister Theresa May will seek to reassure Caribbean leaders later that the Windrush generation will not be deported over paperwork issues.
The government has apologised after it emerged that some people who arrived from the Commonwealth decades ago as children were now being incorrectly identified as illegal immigrants.
The home secretary has announced a new taskforce to help those affected."
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After the first rumblings of the "Albert Thompson" case a few weeks back, the issue of undocumented child migrants who arrived in the UK from the Commonwealth up to the 1970s seems to have exploded quite spectacularly.
Clearly this is a situation that needs to be sorted out quickly and humanely, but I'm a bit troubled by politicians falling over themselves to either abjectly apologise for it (cf. Amber Rudd), or make out this is some massive injustice (cf. David Lammy).
We are talking about people who have been in the country for 40 years and upwards, who are more than aware that they were born abroad, and yet have never regularised their nationality status, even though by definition there seem to have been a much larger number who did that long ago.
It stands to reason that none of them have ever left/returned to the UK since they first arrived, as they won't have had passports. Sure, not all of the UK population take holidays abroad, but a hell of a lot do. How many were avoiding that, because they knew perfectly well that their status was unclear?
It seems to me that the bulk of those affected may well have been sticking their heads in the sand for decades, avoiding the issue, and hoping their own status never came to light. Most of them could probably have avoided the sort of unpleasant and overbearing attention they have recently experienced at the hands of immigration authorities of late.
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