“I’ve been here for almost 50 years, I’ve worked night and day, I’ve paid into the kitty – but now no one wants to help me,” he says. Dudley council said he was not eligible for emergency housing because he had no right to be in the country. Because her status as a British citizen was under question, she was unable to work and could not travel. He travelled to the UK from Jamaica with his mother when he was three, and has never lived anywhere else. “My employers were told by the Home Office that they had to get rid of me, otherwise they would get fined.

Source: The Guardian February 21, 2018 14:26 UTC