Should the Wtndrush generation be deported ( Archived) (27)

Former home secretary Amber Rudd was let down by her own officials over the Windrush scandal, according to a leaked report into the events that led up to her resignation.
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The Hastings MP quit the Cabinet in April after admitting that she had “inadvertently misled” the Home Affairs Select Committee by erroneously stating that the Government did not have targets for removing illegal immigrants.

But a report by Sir Alex Allan, the prime minister’s adviser on ministers’ interests, found that civil servants had supplied her with the incorrect information and then later “failed to clear up the problem”, the BBC says.

Allan identified Hugh Ind, then head of immigration enforcement, and Patsy Wilkinson, one of the Home Office’s head civil servants, as the two officials at fault, and spoke of the “less than satisfactory performance”.

The report added that Rudd “was not supported as she should have been” before, during and after her appearance before the committee, on 25 April.

Responding to the findings, Rudd told the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “There are elements of this report which just show that, unfortunately, that area of the department did not have a grip on what was going on.

“I hope that there will be changes made as a result of this report so that people get a better service from immigration enforcement. There were a series of leaks during the past year at quite a high level that were definitely intended to embarrass me.”

A spokesperson for Prime Minister Theresa May said: “Clearly, the report has raised some difficult and important issues, and the Home Office has rightly said that they’re going to learn from those.”

The Windrush scandal saw Commonwealth nationals living in the UK wrongly threatened with deportation and deprived of medical care because they lacked the correct documentation.

In total, the number of potential Windrush cases reported to the Home Office has exceeded 5,000.

The scandal has brought down a home secretary and prompted difficult questions for the PM, but how exactly did it unfold?

But should they be deported??

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The Windrush Generation.

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Guy Hewitt, the high commissioner for Barbados, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he feels that the UK was saying to “people of my region: you are no longer welcome”.
Why was this happening?

The problem follows the ending of a previous system of Commonwealth citizenship and free movement, when status was conferred by law on people to safeguard them but some did not acquire the necessary papers, according to immigration law blog Free Movement.

This lack of papers was then exacerbated by Theresa May’s “hostile environment policy, under which landlords, hospitals, businesses and civil society have been forced to proactively prove that their employees, tenants and service users have the right to be in the United Kingdom”, says the New Statesman’s Stephen Bush.

The policy was introduced to achieve the Government’s lower migration targets, by making “living in the UK so unbearable that immigrants will decide to leave of their own accord”, says Bush.