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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
It wasn't deliberate, Den, but an inadvertent result of a change in the law a few years ago.
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It might not have been deliberate but it was a policy that was cruel and heartless given that many of these people have lost their jobs, rights to health and benefits and faced deportation despite being able to show they have paid tax and National Insurance for decades..
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Originally Posted by Damien
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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God help us if there is not a sea change in their attitude and culture before then.