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The British Government's Drastic New Immigration Policies Breaking Up Families In Detaining Caribbean People Who Are Lawfully In Britain March 23. 2018
Jamaican born Paulette Wilson, pictured with her British born daughter, Natalie Barnes, has lawfully lived, worked and paid taxes in Britain for 55-years, but the elderly woman was placed in a detention center in 2017 over her immigration status that was wrongly brought into question under the government's new "Hostile Work Environment" immigration policy. She was recently released after the harrowing experience, when media coverage in Britain highlighted her story. Between 1914-1940 Caribbean people fought for Britain in the First World War and the Second World War. Jamaica's former Prime Minister, Norman Manley, is a barrister/attorney, who fought as a solider in the British army, before returning to the island and later becoming head of state. His son Michael Manley also became a Jamaican Prime Minister. The British government sent out a call to the Caribbean in the 1940s-1960s requesting people from the islands come to Britain to help build and run the extensive transportation system. At the time Jamaica, Bahamas and Trinidad, among others, were British colonies and no visa was required to live in the United Kingdom, under the British Nationality Act of 1948. There was also a call for nurses from the Caribbean. To this day, many nurses in Britain are from the Caribbean or of said heritage (much like thousands of nurses in America are from the Caribbean). Due to the labor shortages in the United Kingdom, Caribbeans boarded ships and later planes, immigrating to Britain to fill the new job posts the British government advertised in the Caribbean. Fast forward to 2017 and the British government, desperate to reduce population numbers from EU, Middle East and African immigration, are giving deportation orders to many people. Among them are old, sick and disabled Caribbeans, who've been in Britain for decades, paying taxes and contributing to their communities. They are now being handed deportation orders to return to the Caribbean, where they have not lived since the 40s, 50s and 60s, on a technicality. Many never applied for British citizenship, as they were granted permanent residency having arrived in the United Kingdom before 1968. The British Nationality Act of 1948 gave people from the colonies the same rights as Britons born in Britain. In an effort to reduce immigration numbers, deportation orders are being sent out and old, sick and elderly people have been detained in detention centers, if they were not able to show when they arrived in Britain. There are Caribbeans who have adult children, grandchildren and great-grand who were born in Britain and can prove it. Logic dictates that their parents were in Britain before 1968 and had permanent residency under British law. However, the British government is deporting anyone they can using technicalities.
Jamaican born, Albert Watson, has lawfully lived, worked as a mechanic and paid taxes in Britain for decades. However, under the British government's new "Hostile Work Environment" policy he was wrongly evicted from his apartment, rendered homeless and denied scheduled cancer surgery and associated treatments. The government has chosen the most vulnerable - the elderly, sick and disabled - to hand deportation orders to and it is inhumane. You invited them there in the 40s-60s. Kicking them out now when they are old, sick and or disabled is terrible. The newspaper coverage on the matter has been extensive, as trying to throw them out at this stage is disgraceful. It's also sending a terrible message to people of color, especially in the commonwealth, which Britain is still head of at this time. Not to mention, there are many interracial marriages in Britain. The White British spouses and significant others of the people you are attempting to kick out under questionable technicalities, abhor what is transpiring and have publicly slammed it. How is offending British born voters a good thing. If I were a head of state, I would not want uncontrolled immigration in my country. I would want to know who is in my country and why. I would want an orderly cue and limits based on availability of national resources. Therefore, I can understand where the British government is coming from in trying to control immigration. However, to reduce numbers in this manner is highly questionable and unethical. If someone is in Britain illegally, having unlawfully snuck into the country or overstayed their visa, they are legitimately eligible for deportation. If you commit a crime as a foreign resident in Britain you are legitimately eligible for deportation. Those are valid and credible deportation cases. However, targeting old people who were invited to immigrate to help build Britain, paid their taxes for decades, contributed to their communities, have children and grandchildren they raised in the country, is wrong. It would be more ethical to reduce immigration quotas for new applications from each nation of the world, lowering the number Britain will accept each year, rather than to kick out old, sick and disabled people who lawfully came to the country prior to 1968 and contributed to the nation. Caribbeans, who love Britain, are under threat in Britain by the government and it is sad. Being head of the Commonwealth has certain responsibilities the current government is not living up to in accordance with preexisting agreements and laws. Britain is isolating itself in the world (EU and Commonwealth) and as the phase goes, "No man is an island." This isolationism is causing Britain irreparable harm. As a foreigner who loves Britain, this is very sad for me to see. The Commonwealth nations have been there for the British government for many generations, through thick and thin, helping to build Britain and fighting in wars for the United Kingdom, but the mistreatment being leveled at said nations' citizens in recent years, by some in the British government, is not right or deserved. It is very disappointing and patently offensive, as you're putting lawful immigrants, especially the elderly, sick and disabled in detention centers, which is jail. If this inhumane treatment continues, the Commonwealth needs to be disbanded. There is no sense in it continuing under these circumstances. Australia is already stating it will remove the royal family upon the Queen's natural death. Other islands are publicly mulling it as well. May as well with what's happening. For the past several years, the British government have been treating us in the Commonwealth like enemies, rather than friends (and we are not your enemy) and the sad part is the British people didn't ask to be represented in this manner. STORY SOURCE Londoner denied NHS cancer care: 'It's like I'm being left to die' Albert Thompson, in UK for 44 years, was told he must to pay for care after Home Office dispute Sat 10 Mar 2018 01.00 EST - Official suspicion about Thompson’s immigration status led to him being evicted last summer, and he was homeless for three weeks. Photograph: Jill Mead for the Guardian. When Albert Thompson went for his first radiotherapy session for prostrate cancer in November he says he was surprised to be taken aside by a hospital administrator and told that unless he could produce a British passport he would be charged £54,000 for the treatment. Thompson has lived in London for 44 years, having arrived from Jamaica as a teenager, and although he has worked as a mechanic and paid taxes for more than three decades, the Home Office is disputing his eligibility to remain. Official suspicion about his immigration status led to him being evicted last summer, and he was homeless for three weeks. His disputed status has also led to free healthcare being denied. Because he has no savings and no way of paying £54,000, he says he is not receiving the cancer treatment he needs... The 63-year-old, who asked for his real name not to be printed on legal advice, is another victim of an unfolding scandal around the treatment by the Home Office of a group of people who arrived in the UK as children from Commonwealth countries. This cohort grew up believing themselves to be British, only to discover in a rapidly hardening immigration climate that they need documentary proof of their right to be here, which many do not have. Thompson’s mother moved from Jamaica to the UK in the 1960s to work as a nurse, dedicating much of her working life to the health system. He married in Britain, and has two grown up sons and a 15-year-old daughter. Thompson was employed full time as a mechanic and later did MOT work, until 2008 when he was diagnosed with the blood cancer lymphoma; since then he has been too ill to work. His problems with the Home Office became acute last July when he was evicted from council-owned accommodation because officials questioned whether he was eligible. The Home Office said it could find no record of him in its files and he was forced to sleep on the streets, until the homelessness charity St Mungo’s housed him. “I kept myself away from other people, sleeping around the back of shops. It was a bit frightening when you’re not used to it,” he said. He had surgery for prostrate cancer in January last year and was to begin a course of radiotherapy at the Royal Marsden hospital last November. But when he turned up for the appointment he was ushered into a side room by a member of staff for a discussion about eligibility and costs. “I was expecting to get the treatment, but they gave me a form requesting a British passport, so that was the end of that,” he said. Thompson has never had a British passport, and was not aware he needed one. The Jamaican passport he arrived with was lost many years ago. “The lady wasn’t at all polite. She said you have to produce it or pay £54,000. I said: ‘Oh my god, I don’t have 54 pence, let alone £54,000.’ I told her I’d been here all my life but it made no difference.” The Royal Marsden hospital have confirmed that is the cost of the treatment Thompson needs... Woman nearly deported after 50 years in UK wins leave to remain Paulette Wilson, 61, says ‘it would be nice to get an apology’ after being detained at Yarl’s Wood immigration centre Thu 11 Jan 2018 13.09 EST Last modified on Fri 12 Jan 2018 02.31 EST - Paulette Wilson was refused permission to work for two and a half years: ‘It’s hard without money.’ A grandmother who was told she was an illegal immigrant, detained in an immigration removal centre and threatened with deportation despite having lived in Britain for 50 years has finally received official leave to remain in the UK. Paulette Wilson, 61, a former cook who served food to MPs in the House of Commons, has been denied benefits and access to healthcare and refused permission to work for the past two and a half years. After a week in Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre in October, she was taken to Heathrow for deportation to Jamaica, a country she had not visited since she left at the age of 10 and where she has no surviving relatives. Coverage of her situation in the Guardian last month prompted anger among politicians and readers. This week she received a biometric residency permit, confirming her settled status in the UK and bringing her a step nearer to gaining British citizenship. “It’s great news. I’ve been really struggling for the last two and a half years – it’s hard without money,” Wilson said. She remains puzzled by why she was told she was an illegal immigrant, when she had worked and paid taxes in the UK for most of her life. “I’ve never done anything wrong; how could I be an illegal? It would be nice to get an apology from the government saying: we are sorry we put you though this.” ‘I can’t eat or sleep’: the woman threatened with deportation after 50 years in Britain. Wilson’s daughter, Natalie Barnes, said her mother now had to complete a naturalisation process to become a British citizen. Barnes added that, despite her relief, Wilson was still traumatised by her experience. “The experience of being in the detention centre won’t ever leave her,” Barnes said. Barnes had repeatedly tried to explain to Home Office staff in Solihull that her mother was not an illegal immigrant, but was banned from the building because staff were annoyed at her persistent attempts to tell them they had made a mistake. An intervention by Jim Wilson, a lawyer who works with the Refugee and Migrant Centre in Wolverhampton, helped prevent Paulette’s deportation to Jamaica. He said her papers had come through unusually quickly once the case was highlighted in the media. “She has been treated abominably,” he said. “It is significant that they picked on a vulnerable person – someone who can’t read properly, who has no knowledge of the system and no funds to get legal advice. There are plenty of other people in this situation, we just don’t know how many.” Wilson’s MP, Emma Reynolds, said: “This is not an isolated case and I have asked the Home Office to assess how many people in Paulette’s situation are being treated in this appalling way.” The case has helped to expose the Home Office’s harsh treatment of a number of long-settled, retirement-age UK residents, who are being aggressively pursued over their immigration status. Most were unaware that their papers were not in order until Theresa May’s announcement of a “hostile environment” for immigrants in 2012... RELATED ARTICLES 88-Year-Old Woman Being Deported From Britain To Possible Death In Her Home Country Of Zimbabwe |
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