When Even Legal Residents Face Deportation
The U.K.’s “Windrush” scandal shows the wide reach of the country’s immigration crackdown.
In the aftermath of World War II, the British government invited thousands of people from Caribbean countries in the British Commonwealth to immigrate to the United Kingdom and help address the war-torn country’s labor shortages. Now, nearly 70 years later, many of those same people, now elderly, are having their legal status in the country questioned and are facing deportation.
Though the deportation threats October, the crisis burst into wider view this week after Caribbean diplomats representing a dozen Commonwealth nations the U.K. government publicly. “This is about people saying, as they said 70 years ago, ‘Go back
