Cuttooth wrote:Moggy wrote:Cuttooth wrote:No political event has enraged me more in the past few years than Windrush, and the callous and outright cruel way a government and its institutions can treat someone's life just because they are a minority.
It’s getting worse now than it was under Theresa May. And the scandal just doesn’t seem to be there now.
We’ll have babies in cages soon.
The scandal isn't there because they're deporting people with a criminal record instead of people who are simply trying to sign on or get NHS treatment. The main thing the government has understood from the Windrush "lessons learnt" review I guess will be who exactly you can target without too many people giving a gooseberry fool. There is no greater evidence for the fact that we have a multi tiered way we treat people who are British than how we treat adults who have committed a crime and served their sentence. It suggests minorities who came to the UK as children have to always hold themselves to a higher standard than those around them born here.
The Home Office this morning has deported people to Jamaica despite a court order saying they shouldn't. A day of genuine national shame.
I was reading about the deportation this morning and the government are basically claiming a technicality. They haven't deported the people who were covered by the court order, but technically only people who had O2 Sim cards were covered by the court order, so they could proceed with deportation of everyone else according to them.
I'm sure the government were very thorough in checking and that they absolutely haven't made any mistakes and 'accidentally' deported someone who should have been covered by the court order.