25 April 2018, The Tablet

Axe these unjust and hostile laws now


 

The UK government’s anti-immigration policy has resulted in untold harm to many thousands of British citizens who discovered that apparently Britain did not want them any more. They were children of the “Windrush generation” who came to Britain after the Second World War. The first group arrived on board the Empire Windrush in 1948. Travelling on their parents’ passports, they had no documentary evidence of their legal status. That hardly mattered until the passing of the 2014 and 2016 Immigration Acts, which required anyone in work, driving a car, renting a home, claiming a welfare benefit or seeking NHS treatment, to prove they were in the country legally.

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