The plight of the Windrush generation is rightly viewed as the most shocking scandal to emerge from the UK immigration system for a generation.
As a result of deliberate UK government policy, long-term British residents were ensnared by a Hostile Environment dragnet. This approach to immigration renders people who look or sound ‘a bit foreign’ as undesirable or unlawful until they show their papers to their landlords, their employers and their doctors. And it essentially turns basic public service providers, and our fellow citizens, into Border police.
