- by Met
Two people have escaped immediate deportation to Jamaica after 11th-hour interventions by their lawyers as the Home Office was accused of trying to remove people while their applications to remain in the UK under the Windrush scheme were still being considered.
Lascelles White, 61, moved to the UK from the Caribbean in 1973 when he was five years old.
He has applied to regularise his status under the Windrush scheme but has not received a response.
Instead, he was detained and was facing deportation on a charter flight to Jamaica thought to be taking off as early as Wednesday.
White’s solicitor, Connie Sozi from Deighton Pierce Glynn, made an urgent out-of-hours application to the high court to try to prevent his deportation and on Tuesday night, as the judge was considering the application, the Home Office informed Sozi that White would no longer be put on the flight.
Christopher Richards, who is a witness in the inquest of Carlington Spencer, an immigration detainee who died in 2017, also learned on Tuesday that his deportation has been deferred by the Home Office following last-minute legal representations by his solicitor Imogen Townley at Wilsons solicitors.
Home secretary Sajid Javid told parliament on Tuesday: “None of those being deported are British citizens or members of the Windrush generation.”
Earlier on Tuesday Labour MP David Lammy criticised the decision to restart mass deportation flights back to the Caribbean before the publication of an independent investigation into what had caused the Windrush scandal.
“How can you be confident that you are not making the same mistakes?” he asked.
Black people…..listen to me please.
It is time for us to wake up! Whether you are from Africa or the Caribbean.
If you have a taste for the U.K or the USA…..why not make our countries look just like them or even better. And you have the sunshine to go with it.
Unless we stop this slavery, dependency mentally, things will never change.
It starts at the top with our corrupt sell out governments. But at the same time ‘we’ the people are the majority, the government is the minority.
Together we can build our countries and turn them places that we can be proud of. You will not want to over stay your visa any where in the world. Because there is no place like home!
Those of you who were not born in the USA or UK you are not safe either.
Start visiting home regularly, buy land and build your house.
Start a business in the country where you were born in, you owe it that much, it gave you life in your first few days of birth. Now give life back to it.
Let us accept our brothers and sisters back with love. Lets learn to pick up each other when we fall.
Remember the sun was here way before all of us and will be here after. No matter where they deport you to, we all still see and share the same sun.
Lastly, let each and everyone of us look into ourselves.
You will never hear of a plane full of Chinese, Japanese or Indian people.
Black people…..listen to me please.
It is time for us to wake up! Whether you are from Africa or the Caribbean.
If you have a taste for the U.K or the USA…..why not make our countries look just like them or even better. And you have the sunshine to go with it.
Unless we stop this slavery, dependency mentally, things will never change.
It starts at the top with our corrupt sell out governments. But at the same time ‘we’ the people are the majority, the government is the minority.
Together we can build our countries and turn them places that we can be proud of. You will not want to over stay your visa any where in the world. Because there is no place like home!
Those of you who were not born in the USA or UK you are not safe either.
Start visiting home regularly, buy land and build your house.
Start a business in the country where you were born in, you owe it that much, it gave you life in your first few days of birth. Now give life back to it.
Let us accept our brothers and sisters back with love. Lets learn to pick up each other when we fall.
Remember the sun was here way before all of us and will be here after. No matter where they deport you to, we all still see and share the same sun.
Lastly, let each and everyone of us look into ourselves.
You will never hear of a plane full of Chinese, Japanese or Indian people.
The latest rjr news update listed 7 names ,so that’s indeed a collective sigh of relief !
White, who is now 61 years old, was 5 years old in 1973? Come on, what a nonsense!