Yes he was an illegal immigrant if he didn't have papers. He should have filed for citizenship 30+ years ago. his fault
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Read the article. All commonwealth arrivals in 1970s were AUTOMATICALLY given legal U.K. citizenship. The Home Office lost those records. He was (and is) entirely legal. Hence the scandal.
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ohh OK. But you have to understand UK's position. You can't have automatic citizens roaming around the country. Mistakes of the past governments have to be rectified
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Rectified by the government who made them. Not by deporting legal citizens or denying them healthcare or pension. Which is what the U.K. has done to large numbers of its citizens.
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Surely a better policy should be in place but how do they provide services for someone not in the system. Its not fair but its law. These people knew the risk and decided to play it out. You have to be responsible enough not to get yourself in this situation in the first place
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The risk being that the government would delete their records without informing them. And then use that to deport them. Yup that's fair. An obvious risk when they came. Should have seen it coming.

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There is nothing right about it but it had to be done. Anyone could easily claim to be an automatic citizen because of how records were collected from various ports and shores. no real order about it.
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Absolutely speechless!
@theresa_may this is all on you. Racism, stereotyping, human rights breech, bad governance & bad ‘leadership’ all wrapped into one!#Windrush#Scandal#Conservative#Government - 1 more reply
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Disgraceful.
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Racism of high class. ...
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Nation states are awesome.
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Britain's commonwealth turns out to be racism and colonialism...again.
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Incredible ! It is a pity, without humanity !
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Nonsense!
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It’s happening all over. DHS out of control Anyone anywhere anytime can be put on these watch lists. You know something is wrong and then you figure it out. The deliberate assassination of a person with NO recourse.
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