UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid on Tuesday has personally apologized to 18 Caribbean nationals, who have been identified as wrongfully removed or detained, as a part of the ongoing Windrush generation scandal.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 21st August, 2018) UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid on Tuesday has personally apologized to 18 Caribbean nationals, who have been identified as wrongfully removed or detained, as a part of the ongoing Windrush generation scandal.
"I would like to personally apologise to those identified in our review and am committed to providing them with the support and compensation they deserve. We must do everything we can to ensure that nothing like this happens again - which is why I have asked an independent adviser to look at what lessons we can learn from Windrush," Javid said as quoted in a statement by the Home Office.
The UK government is currently reviewing 11,800 historical detention and removal cases spreading roughly equally between 2002 to 2010, and from 2010 onward.
The UK government has been under fire over its treatment of migrants since the Windrush generation scandal emerged in April. Originally brought to the United Kingdom under free movement policies between the 1940s and the 1970s in a bid to cover labor shortages, these then imperial citizens have since suffered pressure from the UK authorities, which have been asking these migrants to prove they had a right to stay in the country, despite them having lived there for most of their lives.
The tensions grew further when media published last year's letter from then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd to UK Prime Minister Theresa May, in which the home secretary informed the prime minister of her intention to increase deportation targets by 10 percent. This came just days after Rudd denied that her office had targets for migrants removals. Rudd had to step down on April 30 amid the scandal.
