The high commissioner of Jamaica has called for a suspension of deportations to Jamaica until the Home Office has published its investigation into the Windrush scandal.
At an emotional meeting of relatives of people who were deported to Jamaica earlier this month, held at the Jamaican high commission in London, the high commissioner, Seth George Ramocan, said he was particularly concerned about the deportation of people who had lived in the UK since they were children, and also the removal of parents who had young children living in Britain.
Jamaican high commission in the diaspora needs to spend a significant portion of its time in theese countries launching advertisment campaigns warning/informing jamaicans living in the diaspora who are non citizens of thise countries the necessity of moral and civil conduct and adherence to rules and laws instead of photo ops and meaningless and fruitless meetings and more photo ops.
when the high commission calls for a suspension of deportations due to the windrush scandal, there needs to be more clarity as there are 2 categories of deportees:
1. non citizens convicted of various crimes where applicable to the country’s laws.
2. non citizens living within a country with STATUS discrepancies.
the windrush generation would fall under the latter category, so I need to know how such a call to suspension would deter the home office to halt deporting convicted criminals(given that they all are) even if the conclusion of the windrush findings illustrates the british govt. erred, symbolic gestures won’t solve the problem.
#Byeeeee
Is you again speaking on who do not know. I sought to enlighten your ignorance on another post however you insist on being a charlatan.
1 some of those individuals deported were naturalised british citizen, however in the uk, once convicted and sentenced to 12 months or more you are up for automatic deportation.
As I also stated british law permits Britain to withdraw British citizenship and passport facilities from citizens who were born in the uk, as in the case this week of shamima begum.
This is contrary to international law which does not allow a country to leave anyone stateless.
2 300 ppl were affected by Windrush scandal either getting deported, held in detention centres, denied health services etc. The home office has already accepted liability and a scheme setup to compensate, even though only one person has been compensated so far.
As for your claim that the Windrush ppl had citizenship descrepancies that’s false. They were all citizen based on coming here from British colonies. Laws were changed in 1981 BNA(British nationality act)
however they were given the opportunity to register for citizenship some didn’t.
The Windrush scandal 29 years later was due to the home office “hostile environment policy” which is illegal. Finally all Windrush victims will be given British registration documents facts. INSHALLAH
The problem is not that Jamaicans living in the UK are not aware of British laws and values, the problem is that the home office, as in the case of Shemima Begum, has used illegal and underhand tactics to deprive people of due process in the courts, knowing that, once off British soil, any appeal is likely to be aborted because these people do not have the resources to proceed. I am glad that the current high commissioner has at least spoken on the matter, since the previous one was blatantly complacent in the wrongful deportion of hundreds of Jamaicans.