The Windrush Generation

[Grafenwalder]

'I'm glad we spoke out': Windrush victim who shone a light on the scandal

61 year old Paulette Wilson, UK resident for 50 years and worked in the House of Commons canteen, held in Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre and removed to Heathrow where she was threatened with deportation to Jamaica – a country she has not visited since she was 10. She lost her home in 2015, a few months after the Department for Work and Pensions stopped her disability benefit payments. “They took my flat away.”

Mrs Wilson wonders if official racism was behind her treatment. As a child in Wolverhampton, she remembers being called “little black Sambo” and told “go back to your own country” and she got into fights occasionally at school because of these comments. But until this happened in 2015, she did not think racism was particularly prevalent here and she is reluctant to see Britain overall as a bad place, despite the terrible treatment she has endured over the past three years. “I have had a really good life here,” she said.

Disgusting and totally unforgivable.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... he-scandal

[Grafenwalder]

Windrush scandal: no passport for thousands who moved to Britain

New census data shows that about 21,000 people who moved to the UK before 1971 have neither a British passport nor a passport from the country where they were born, giving the strongest picture so far of the possible scale of the Windrush scandal.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... to-britain

[Punk]

Windrush scandal: no passport for thousands who moved to Britain

New census data shows that about 21,000 people who moved to the UK before 1971 have neither a British passport nor a passport from the country where they were born, giving the strongest picture so far of the possible scale of the Windrush scandal.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... to-britain

May has a lot of blood on her hands. Any decent politician would put their hands up. Obviously, that rules her out.

[Rolluplostinspace]

At least 1,000 highly skilled migrants wrongly face deportation, experts reveal
At least 1,000 highly skilled migrants seeking indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the UK are wrongly facing deportation under a section of the Immigration Act designed in part to tackle terrorists and individuals judged to be a threat to national security, MPs and experts have said.

In the latest scandal to hit the Home Office after the Windrush crisis, a range of MPs and immigration experts have criticised the use of the controversial section 322(5) of the act, with two saying the crisis-hit department is truly wicked and abusing its power.

Experts say the highly skilled workers – including teachers, doctors, lawyers, engineers and IT professionals – are being refused ILR after being accused of lying in their applications either for making minor and legal amendments to their tax records, or having discrepancies in declared income.

In one case, the applicant’s tax returns were scrutinised by three different appeal courts who had found no evidence of any irregularities. The same figures are nevertheless used as the basis for a 322(5) refusal because of basic tax errors allegedly made by the Home Office itself.

More here > https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/a ... ailsignout

[Grafenwalder]

At least 1,000 highly skilled migrants wrongly face deportation, experts reveal
At least 1,000 highly skilled migrants seeking indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the UK are wrongly facing deportation under a section of the Immigration Act designed in part to tackle terrorists and individuals judged to be a threat to national security, MPs and experts have said.

In the latest scandal to hit the Home Office after the Windrush crisis, a range of MPs and immigration experts have criticised the use of the controversial section 322(5) of the act, with two saying the crisis-hit department is truly wicked and abusing its power.

Experts say the highly skilled workers – including teachers, doctors, lawyers, engineers and IT professionals – are being refused ILR after being accused of lying in their applications either for making minor and legal amendments to their tax records, or having discrepancies in declared income.

In one case, the applicant’s tax returns were scrutinised by three different appeal courts who had found no evidence of any irregularities. The same figures are nevertheless used as the basis for a 322(5) refusal because of basic tax errors allegedly made by the Home Office itself.

More here > https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/a ... ailsignout

Errm....re the bib, how many 'non-doms' and wealthy including some in government have been doing that for years under the guise of tax avoidance?!!

[Grafenwalder]

Yet more insanity from May's 'Coalition of Chaos'. The only good part about this case is unlike most Windrushers snared up by May's madcap "hostile environment" legacy from her tenure as HS in the HO is Mr Dadabhoy has some serious financial clout to see this case through the courts. Personally i hope he seeks massively huge damages from May and financially ruins her because God knows, she's done irreparable damage to this country. She's unfit to hold office as PM and should be immediately dismissed. She has to go and Javid must totally overhaul that HO and bring in the pest control to rid it of May's evilness. He may even need an exorcist.

'Credible and honest': the company director facing deportation to Pakistan

Saleem Dadabhoy is facing deportation under paragraph 322(5) of the Immigration Act despite three different appeal courts having scrutinised his accounts and finding no evidence of any irregularities, and an appeal judge ruling that he was trustworthy and credible. His deportation would lead directly to the loss of nearly 20 jobs, all held by British citizens, and the closure of a British company worth £1.5m.

“Due to my revenue generation at Connexion Electrical Ltd, where I am a director, the HMRC has enjoyed over £100,000 of tax receipts,” said Dadabhoy.

Dadabhoy was served with a deportation order under paragraph 322(5) in November 2017 after an eight-year dispute with the Home Office to remain in the country. It has so far cost Dadabhoy £15,000 in legal fees and will cost him another £7,000 if it goes to court. “Money isn’t important to me,” he said. “My family has enough to enable me to hire the best lawyers and barristers for this fight over whatever period it takes.

“I’m doing this because paragraph 322(5) links me to terrorism, which is the last thing a Muslim would want to be associated with because it not only hijacks and sabotages your identity but also restricts you to travel around the world, which would be especially damaging to me, belonging as I do to a business family who has property interest around the globe,” he said. “Even if I returned to Pakistan tomorrow, this paragraph 322(5) would make it virtually impossible for me to get a business visa, which would be a great hindrance to my family’s business, and my career and personal life.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ration-act

[Guest]

No comments from May's vapid cheerleaders on here, how telling.

[Grafenwalder]

No comments from May's vapid cheerleaders on here, how telling.

Their silence is deafening and is sickening to believe anyone could turn a blind eye to it. But the coalition of chaos wagon blunders on.

Barry lawyer says Windrush families are living in fear

"Some people think this is just about the Windrush generation - who are now [aged] around 70 - but often I am helping first and second generation children - people who were born here," she said.

"Typically, the children - now around 50 - have birth certificates, but this doesn't grant them a right to a British passport.

"These children went to school here, registered with doctors and dentists.

"They then got a national insurance number and worked.

"No issues were raised about their nationality or immigration status, so they went through their lives in total ignorance as to their lack of official status."

"Imagine having lived here all your life, trying to enrol in university and being told you can't unless you can prove you are a descendent of the Windrush generation," she said.

"That is what is happening.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-43913263

After Windrush, stop talking about ‘illegals’. Start talking about people

Words matter. That is perhaps the simplest lesson delivered by the Windrush scandal. When placed next to the terms immigrant and asylum seeker, language such as “floodgates”, “swarm” and “bogus” have a real world impact. In 1995, the then Conservative home secretary, Michael Howard, helpfully talked of Britain as an “attractive destination for bogus asylum seekers and other illegal immigrants”.

Twenty years on from Howard’s intervention, David Cameron would describe migrants in Calais as a “swarm of people”, while the Sun complained that European judges had opened the “floodgates to illegal immigrants”.

Amber Rudd herself, as she struggled to answer a straightforward question on removal targets, was nevertheless at pains to make a distinction between “Windrush, who are legal migrants” (despite many never having been migrants in the first place) with “people that are here illegally”.

On the same day that Rudd finally resigned for misleading the country – or for not being fully aware of the facts (take your pick) – Piers Morgan on ITV’s Good Morning Britain could be seen “grilling” Diane Abbott on Labour’s policy regarding “illegal” immigrants. For Morgan, “It’s not a difficult question”. In reality it seems a simple answer only when the language employed dehumanises thousands, enabling a culture of casual brutality and neglect that we have seen typified in each Windrush story.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/08/windrush-illegal-migrants-immigrants