Windrush generation
Shameful and one policy this country should be utterly ashamed of.:(
https://www.ft.com/content/b7d5d1e2-...a-295c97e6fd0b https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a...rted-zt3bzqw9r https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...y-policy-cruel |
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It is a result of a situation that has existed for a long time, ie before 2010. There have been threats of deportation of people who came here as children. They leave this country for the first time to go on holiday and had trouble getting back in.
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Glad to say that the Government is now working to put this right. |
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I can't believe people have been deported because of this. It's ridiculous. How did it get this far? How could the policy be so inhuman and resistant to basic logic? The absurd burden of proof these people had to obtain in order to remain and no one picked up on it until the media ran these stories?
The Government not only need to fix this for the windrush population but think how to better judge who has right to remain in future. This could happen to the EU population in a few decades time. |
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The lack of access to the NHS and threat of deportation have been there all along. In the past, the NHS was meant to do checks, but didn't.
The problem is the lack of records kept in the PAST, when they arrived. As I said previously, there have been instances of people having arrived as children and decades later, suddenly having a threat of being deported. Nothing new, except the fuss being made. |
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Sky News is reporting that there is no evidence any ‘Windrush’ migrants were deported.
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I suppose it depends on what the deal was when they came here. Was it a benefit of coming to fill job vacancies that they would be allowed to settle here for life, or was it always the case that this was a temporary thing?
If it was always known to be a temporary arrangements they can't really complain, but after all this time it's no longer as simple as that. I know lots of people who came here who always had the intention of only staying for a fixed period, however, once they met a partner, had children etc they began to buy houses and such. Racial discrimination laws made their lives easier and they were no longer happy to do the jobs that they were originally brought over for, resulting in promotion to better paid jobs. Even at this stage many would say that they would go back to where they still considered home upon retirement. The problem was, after making friends and creating new family here, going home meant that they would have to uproot and make new friends just as they were getting older. The friends and family that they had left behind had probably died or moved on. Whilst they would be able to take their pension abroad; i'm not sure if the Caribbean countries have something similar to Housing Benefit to help with rent etc (there again, their standard of living might be much cheaper and the British pension may be enough to live on.) Also, just as they were getting older and more likely to need healthcare, they would lose the benefits of the NHS, many who will have paid for over the course of their working life. |
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It seems multiple times over the years the impact changes to records and rules will have on these people has been missed or ignored :( |
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