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Sickening: if being 'deported in error' to Jamaica, a country you might not have visited in 50 years, UKgov advises:
Watch your wallet,
Put on a local accent,
'try to be "Jamaican"'
#Windrush
Of course brutal racist policy & practice at Home Office didn't start with #Windrush scandal.
Theresa May fought a legal battle to deport a kidney transplant patient to Nigeria regardless of urgent medical advice that this would kill her:
@SHINEreports opendemocracy.net/shinealight/cl…
British children are routinely being bereaved of their parents by a Home Office bent on deportation at all costs @SHINEreports (didn't start with #Windrush ) opendemocracy.net/shinealight/re… letter to judge from British child whose father was deported
A child was locked up in a prison-like UK immigration detention centre for 151 days alongside adult men (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports opendemocracy.net/shinealight/cl…
Home Office told fathers deported to from UK to Jamaica:
Do your parenting by Skype
(Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports
opendemocracy.net/shinealight/mi…
Bruno Dos Santos was locked up under immigration powers. They cancelled a planned brain scan. He died. Bruno was 25 years old. (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports opendemocracy.net/shinealight/ph…
People on deportation flights have been tied up "like animals" in restraints so extreme they are rarely used in prisons (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports
opendemocracy.net/shinealight/ph…
Home Office contractors shackled an 84 year old Canadian man as he lay dying in hospital (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) opendemocracy.net/shinealight/ph…
“Headbutt the bitch, I’d beat her up,” said one #Serco guard, caught on camera at the notorious UK immigration detention centre Yarl's Wood
(Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports opendemocracy.net/shinealight/lu…
Tahir Mehmood was 43 when he died in UK immigration detention. A guard said he hadn't been trained in what to do when someone stopped breathing.

(Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports opendemocracy.net/shinealight/ph…
Jimmy Mubenga, 46, had 5 children. "Unlawfully killed" by Home Office contractors on a deportation flight, using restraints that doctors and lawyers had warned were dangerous
(Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports
opendemocracy.net/shinealight/cl…
2 of the 3 guards who restrained Jimmy Mubenga to death had appallingly racist material on their cellphones
(Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports
opendemocracy.net/shinealight/cl…
Women sexually abused by guards at Yarl's Wood, and witnesses to abuse, were deported even when medical evidence supported their claims, prisons inspectors said (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports
opendemocracy.net/shinealight/cl…
Home Office expedited deportation of a 5 year old boy who was sexually abused at Yarl's Wood. His mum's pleas for help for her son, & an independent investigation, were refused.
(Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports
opendemocracy.net/shinealight/cl…
NHS researchers found disturbed children locked up at Yarl's Wood playing "sex games" & shitting their pants. Home Office ministers &civil servant tried to bury the research.
(Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports
opendemocracy.net/shine-light/cl… headline: Roll calls, body searches and sex games
We've reported on Home Office abuses @SHINEreports since 2009.
Work that gives just a glimpse of damage being done in our name.

Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal. But with enuf public opposition Home Office brutality could end with the #Windrush scandal.
Here's @DavidLammy roasting Amber Rudd today in Parliament on the #Windrush scandal goo.gl/BhwxDu
Racist tabloids fuel hate and drive racist policy—MPs fear #DailyMail & Sun.
Here's some (welcome) front page hypocrisy on the #Windrush scandal daily mail front page
here's @JenniferAllsopp of @LIDC_UK @DSPI_Oxford on multiple Home Office abuses over years:
(HO brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal)
has been exposing more horrors from Theresa May's Hostile Environment programme.

police have shopped victims of crime — including rape — to immigration authorities.

Home Office brutality didn't start with the Windrush scandal:
How Theresa May's #HostileEnvironment began
Important thread:
#Windrush

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Lots of very welcome attention on what Theresa May herself entitled the “hostile environment”. One of main planks is “right to rent”, where landlords have to check immigration papers of tenants. Does this cause discrimination against black and ethnic minority tenants? Thread 1/?
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What is this @theresa_may @AmberRuddHR? I thought this was a joke but @ukhomeoffice have actually produced a “Coming home to Jamaica guide”. Eg “Try to be Jamaican”. How can someone do that when they are British and their home is in Britain? #Windrush gov.uk/government/pub…
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Hard to believe this document was written and published. The fact that the Govnt feels this is an appropriate way to treat the ancestors of those Caribbean pioneers who were invited to Britain as citizens tells its own sad story about the treatment of immigrants in our country.
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2/3 "It’s really extraordinary the Home Office is coming out with this ghastly bureaucratic guff saying they’ve got to show they’re British. Nobody’s asking us to prove that we’re British when we go and use public services."
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