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The Reader: Deportations en masse should be axed at once

<p>Priti Patel</p> (PA)

Priti Patel

(PA)

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has ruled that the Home Office broke equalities law when it implemented the hostile environment anti-immigration measures. The Tories devised the policy with the deliberate aim of making the lives of migrants in the UK as intolerable as possible.

As a result of the ruling, the Home Office is required to review its procedures when implementing the hostile environment to ensure they comply with equality legislation.

Under Priti Patel, the Home Office has resumed mass deportations using methods which echo those used against the Windrush generation.

It plans a mass deportation of 50 black British residents to Jamaica on December 2. If the ruling means anything, the deportations must be cancelled. If they go ahead it will be yet more proof that the racism that produced the Windrush scandal remains at the heart of Tory politics.

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Sasha Simic

Editor’s reply

Dear Sasha

I understand some victims of this scandal are still fighting for compensation and meeting with bureaucracy. To me, it all says that the trauma done to this community is still not being taken seriously enough. I disagree with you that racism is “at the heart” of any of our mainstream party politics. But I do not feel reassured that a similar scandal will not happen again as the Government pursues its own tough post-Brexit immigration policy.

Sophia Sleigh, Political Reporter

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