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May's 'get the immigrants out, legit or not' hostile policy scandal keeps emerging. Even though the Tories have tried to say 'we don't do that sort of thing now' the ramifications keep popping up all too regularly.
Footage emerges of 'distressing' home visit by officers
Immigration and asylum
Footage emerges of 'distressing' home visit by immigration officers
Visit to house of woman trying to regularise visa status raises fresh questions about removals policy
Amelia Gentleman and Caroline Bannock
Wed 16 May 2018 07.00 BSTLast modified on Wed 16 May 2018 08.01 BST
'I thought they'd take everything away from me': immigration officers enter couple's home at dawn
Footage has emerged of a dawn immigration enforcement operation by six officers, showing a “distressing” and “intimidating” sequence of events.
The visit to the home of a woman who was in the process of regularising her visa status has raised fresh questions about the fairness and efficiency of Home Office policy.
An enforcement team visited the home of Zixuan Qu and her fiance, Duncan Watkinson, at around 5.30am on 1 May. They searched the property and told Qu she had “no leave to remain in the UK” and that she had been classified as an “immigration offender”.
After 25 minutes in the couple’s home, the officials appeared to acknowledge an error had been made and retreated, leaving Qu terrified and Watkinson in tears.
The couple are angry that immigration staff carrying handcuffs descended on their home in an apparent attempt to take Qu into detention, when they believe she has done nothing wrong. Qu said she had never been notified that there might be a problem and believed that her visa application was still in the process of being considered".
The Tories 'promised' to get to the bottom of how many British citizens were illegally deported, but still refuse to fully investigate this scandal.
Windrush row More than 60 people could have been wrongly removed
Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, said: “Imagine living in a country that wrongly deports its own citizens. Under Theresa May’s hostile environment you don’t have to imagine.”
Diane Abbott
✔@HackneyAbbott
https://twitter.com/HackneyAbbott/status/996431459908050944
Windrush row: 63 people could have been wrongly removed, says Javid https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/15/windrush-row-63-people-could-have-been-wrongly-removed-says-javid?CMP=share_btn_tw … Govt previously could find no-one wrongfully deported. Still not answering on numbers detained, or refused re-entry, or 'voluntary removals' after threats of deportation.
5:45 PM - May 15, 2018
Windrush row: 63 people could have been wrongly removed, says Javid
Home secretary gives first official indication of number of individuals who could have been wrongfully removed or deported from UK
Javid told the committee that he was not aware of any Windrush-related cases currently in detention but was yet to investigate how many have previously been wrongfully detained.
Theresa May’s “hostile environment” policies introduced when she was home secretary require employers, NHS staff, private landlords and other bodies to demand evidence of people’s citizenship or immigration status.
Members of the Windrush generation, who arrived in the UK from 1948 onwards, as well as their children have been wrongly targeted by the policies."
Footage emerges of 'distressing' home visit by officers
Immigration and asylum
Footage emerges of 'distressing' home visit by immigration officers
Visit to house of woman trying to regularise visa status raises fresh questions about removals policy
Amelia Gentleman and Caroline Bannock
Wed 16 May 2018 07.00 BSTLast modified on Wed 16 May 2018 08.01 BST
'I thought they'd take everything away from me': immigration officers enter couple's home at dawn
Footage has emerged of a dawn immigration enforcement operation by six officers, showing a “distressing” and “intimidating” sequence of events.
The visit to the home of a woman who was in the process of regularising her visa status has raised fresh questions about the fairness and efficiency of Home Office policy.
An enforcement team visited the home of Zixuan Qu and her fiance, Duncan Watkinson, at around 5.30am on 1 May. They searched the property and told Qu she had “no leave to remain in the UK” and that she had been classified as an “immigration offender”.
After 25 minutes in the couple’s home, the officials appeared to acknowledge an error had been made and retreated, leaving Qu terrified and Watkinson in tears.
The couple are angry that immigration staff carrying handcuffs descended on their home in an apparent attempt to take Qu into detention, when they believe she has done nothing wrong. Qu said she had never been notified that there might be a problem and believed that her visa application was still in the process of being considered".
The Tories 'promised' to get to the bottom of how many British citizens were illegally deported, but still refuse to fully investigate this scandal.
Windrush row More than 60 people could have been wrongly removed
Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, said: “Imagine living in a country that wrongly deports its own citizens. Under Theresa May’s hostile environment you don’t have to imagine.”
Diane Abbott
✔@HackneyAbbott
https://twitter.com/HackneyAbbott/status/996431459908050944
Windrush row: 63 people could have been wrongly removed, says Javid https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/15/windrush-row-63-people-could-have-been-wrongly-removed-says-javid?CMP=share_btn_tw … Govt previously could find no-one wrongfully deported. Still not answering on numbers detained, or refused re-entry, or 'voluntary removals' after threats of deportation.
5:45 PM - May 15, 2018
Windrush row: 63 people could have been wrongly removed, says Javid
Home secretary gives first official indication of number of individuals who could have been wrongfully removed or deported from UK
Javid told the committee that he was not aware of any Windrush-related cases currently in detention but was yet to investigate how many have previously been wrongfully detained.
Theresa May’s “hostile environment” policies introduced when she was home secretary require employers, NHS staff, private landlords and other bodies to demand evidence of people’s citizenship or immigration status.
Members of the Windrush generation, who arrived in the UK from 1948 onwards, as well as their children have been wrongly targeted by the policies."
Wouldn't it be nice if we could look back in my lifetime (with a tinge of sadness) that there was once an age where governments could decide where you could or could not live? It's an absurd and antiquated concept.
Nationalisation of a rail service? Wtf is this witchcraft? Are they just gonna fix all the problems caused by privatisation and money grubbing then sell it to a different friend to do the same thing.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
NilSatisOptimum
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Select Committee pretty harsh on May and her government inability to deal with Putin and his Capos dirty rubels, not sure this Government is really going to be up to shooting the geese that lay the goldens eggs anytime soon, perhaps a super super inquiry will quell some of us plebs.
Moscow's Gold: Russian Corruption in the UK - Foreign Affairs Committee - House of Commons
Moscow's Gold: Russian Corruption in the UK - Foreign Affairs Committee - House of Commons
Steve0
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Its antiquated but also quite new.
Nobody told the founding fathers they had no right to be in America.
peteblue
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Indeed, people used to just move around, and perhaps be killed by the indigenous populations......
Steve0
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Hmmm...blimey what a post.
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
History dear boy, just history........
Jim Milne @43 really doesn't know what he wants does heMoney takes care of money?
https://news.sky.com/story/give-bor...ontrol-of-100bn-budget-urges-tory-mp-11389211
This is the worst shout since Klopp thought "let's start Karius"....
This is the worst shout since Klopp thought "let's start Karius"....
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