Rudd goes - oppose racist immigration regime

Susan Moore — 2018-05-08T05:50:07Z

The British Home Secretary Amber Rudd was forced to resign on the evening of 29 April 2018 after a tumultuous period in which she had made a number of statements to Parliament and to the media that were latter proved inaccurate. These concerned immigration policy and deportations and followed revelations in the mass media, spearheaded by the Guardian newspaper, of the scandalous treatment of long-term residents from the formerly British Caribbean. Rudd has been replaced by Sajid Javid, the first BAME (Black, Asian, Middle Eastern) politician to hold the post.

The “Windrush generation”, (the term comes from HMS Windrush which brought servicemen from Jamaica to Britain in 1948) is a term used to refer to people from the Caribbean who came to Britain between 1948 and 1971 to work notably in the British public services, transport and the health service. Although they arrived with the right to live and work in Britain as British and Commonwealth citizens they have been impacted by the “hostile environment” for immigrants current Prime Minister Theresa May created when she was Home Secretary. [International Viewpoint]

- IV520 - May 2018 / Britain, Migration

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Rudd goes - oppose racist immigration regime