Dadavester
Dadavester t1_jcvcn06 wrote
Reply to comment by Ok-disaster2022 in British man deported to Jamaica launches action against Home Office | Richard Wallace wrongly classed as Jamaican and deported after serving murder sentence, despite having been born in London by kwentongskyblue
Thats not quite true.
Those that arrived had documentation that was stored since the 50's/60's at the home office. In the late 2000's it was decided that those records would be scrapped. Anything importent would be digitised the rest would be rubbish.
When the Con/LD government came in they continued this. So all the government records were destroyed.
The Tories then changed the rules on what is acceptable as proof of residancy. Many of the Windrush generation now did not have the correct documentation. And the Home office no longer had any record of them.
The whole process was started under labour. But at the time it was not issue because of the rules. The tories changing the rules would not have been an issue, if the home office had kept the records.
It was a huge fuck up. And it took far too long for the tories to admit their error.
Dadavester t1_jcxc2l9 wrote
Reply to comment by Gairmonster in British man deported to Jamaica launches action against Home Office | Richard Wallace wrongly classed as Jamaican and deported after serving murder sentence, despite having been born in London by kwentongskyblue
The Labour government organised and approved the documents being destroyed, and it was carried out under Tory-Lib Dem government.
All 3 parties share blame for thos documents being destroyed.
How the Tories are the only ones at fault for the removals.