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David Lammy @DavidLammy
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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…
This document harks back to “repatriation” campaigns. This document was published when Theresa May was Home Sec, promoting her hostile environments policy – the starting point for the injustices that we are seeing writ large for the Windrush generation. theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/a…
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.
How exactly can someone pretend to ‘be Jamaican’ when they are British and have lived here all their lives? What is going on @AmberRuddHR @theresa_may @ukhomeoffice? theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/a…
Deported Windrush children and others told to "be Jamaican" and put on a Jamaican accent. What a hideous, despicable document, what a tragic indictment of the Home Office and hostile environments. Callous and hard to believe this was ever published. theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/a…
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