The U.K. government agency that oversees immigration is still struggling to address many of the problems that upended the lives of thousands of people of Caribbean descent wrongly targeted as illegal migrants, an independent reviewer said Thursday, more than four years after the scandal rocked Britain.
The reviewer, Wendy Williams, made that assessment in a report on how the Home Office responded to her original inquiry into the Windrush scandal. “Institutional ignorance and thoughtlessness” surrounding the issue of race were partly responsibly for the scandal, Williams said in a 2020 report that made 30 recommendations for improving the agency.
