After five months of shocking revelations about the treatment of Windrush generation citizens, the UK government has apologised. At least two were sent to detention centres and threatened with removal to countries they left 50 years ago, as children. Now it emerges that officials actually destroyed landing cards which could have helped support their cases, despite warnings from staff. As outrage over the grotesque injustice grew, the home secretary made an unusually forthright apology in the House of Commons on Monday. Though Mrs May says she is “genuinely sorry” about the anxiety of Windrush citizens, this is not a matter of random administrative errors but part of a systematic issue created by her choices.

Source: The Guardian April 17, 2018 17:26 UTC