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Sonia Sodha @soniasodha
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I still just cannot get my head round the fact the Home Office threatened to deport a young person born in Birmingham & brought up in care.
The state was in loco parentis to him for almost 18 years, then threatened to deport him to Jamaica as an adult. It’s just mind-boggling.
May has promised to resolve this for Windrush generation but NOT for children born here but who now can’t probe status. And home office charges children £1k to claim citizenship to which they’re entitled.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/a…
This is good on this issue:

vice.com/en_uk/article/…
This by @solange_valdez explains more about this issue. If local authorities don't help children in care apply for the British citizenship to which they're entitled by age 18, they may lose the right to apply.

legalvoice.org.uk/local-authorit…
And children as young as ten born in Britain & applying for citizenship face a “good character” test, and a caution or conviction may result in their application rejected.

nrpfnetwork.org.uk/News/Pages/bri…
Here's the Observer view: the hostile environment must be dismantled & nobody who grew up in Britain should be denied citizenship

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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