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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Jacqueline McKenzie

Voices: ‘Deport now, appeal later’ is proof we haven’t learned from Windrush

The Windrush scandal ought to have sounded a warning about what happens when you deport people without due process.

Claudius was allowed to stay in the UK after being minutes away from being put on a flight at Gatwick airport in December 2014, without a right to an in-country appeal. He recently settled a six-figure sum from the Windrush Compensation Scheme. Others have been brought back to the UK at huge cost.

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