Simon Israel-12 Apr 2018Senior Home Affairs Correspondent
Since January, Channel 4 News has been reporting the plight of the
Windrush kids. They came to UK as children, attended British schools,
worked British jobs and built British lives. Now thousands of people who
arrived in the UK decades ago – in the first wave of Commonwealth
immigration in the 1950s and 60s – are living with the threat of
deportation.
They came here as children, attended British schools, worked British jobs and built British lives.
Now thousands of people who arrived in the UK decades ago – in the first
wave of Commonwealth immigration in the 1950s and 60s – are living with
the threat of deportation.
Known as the Windrush generation after the British ship ‘The Empire
Windrush’, which travelled from the Caribbean to Tilbury Docks in Essex
in 1948, many have made the UK their home for their entire lives.
Channel 4 News has been following the stories of a few of this
generation as they fight for their right to be British – a nationality
they had always taken for granted.
A new petition on the government’s website calling on the Home Office to
grant them an amnesty has attracted more than 23,000 signatures. The
Home Office said it would handle applications to stay “sensitively”.
Watch their moving stories below.
Windrush mother blames immigration problems for son’s death
Why people invited to the UK faced deportation – explainer
Former England cricketer Roland Butcher: Windrush generation ‘should have been dealt with humanely’
