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    Campaigners trying to stop deportation of 50 people to Jamaica lose court case

    Campaigners trying to stop deportation of 50 people to Jamaica lose court case

    The Home Office says those being deported are criminals but campaigners say some were only children when they moved to the UK.

    Monday 10 February 2020 17:56, UK



    Image:Fifty people are set to be deported to Jamaica on Tuesday.


    Campaigners trying to stop the deportation of 50 people to Jamaica from the UK on Tuesday have lost their High Court challenge.

    The Home Office says those who will be placed on the flight are criminals but activists claim some were as young as 13 when they moved to the UK.


    More than 150 politicians and peers have written to the prime minister calling on him to stop the deportation, and lawyers for some of the detainees are planning to appeal against the court decision.

    Two of the young men who had been set to be deported were convicted of drugs offences as teenagers and say they have no link to Jamaica, having left the country at a young age.


    Tajay Thompson, who was convicted of possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply as a 17-year-old, has been given a reprieve.


    He served half of a 15-month sentence in 2015 and, now 23, he had told Sky News: "It's not like I'm a rapist or a murderer, I've made a mistake when I was 17 and it's now going to affect my whole life."

    Mr Thompson was brought to the UK as a five-year-old and lives with his mother and younger brother in south London.


    He has only been to Jamaica twice on holiday since and said: "I feel like I was born here. Jamaica is not my country."


    Image:Carline Angus says she fears for her son Tajay Thompson's safety if he is deported

    His mother Carline Angus said she feared for her son's safety if he was deported.


    She told Sky News: "Sending a person back to Jamaica to live is totally different from going on holiday.


    "The minute you reach back home you are a deportee, your life is in jeopardy. You'd be lucky to survive six months there because you became an easy target. So there's no way he can survive. Tajay knows no one there."


    Akiva Heaven, 22, who served around four years for a drugs offence and was released in May 2018, said: "I've done my sentence already, I've done my crime, done my time as they would say.


    "Now, I'm getting a double punishment."


    Mr Heaven said he fears for his life if he is forced to return to a place where he has no relatives and no memories.


    Nottingham East Labour MP Nadia Whittome organised the letter to Boris Johnson and said deportations should be stopped until a report into the Windrush controversy is released.


    She said: "The fact is that many of the individuals in question have lived in the UK since they were children and at least 41 British children are now at risk of losing their fathers through this charter flight.


    "The government risks repeating the mistakes of the Windrush scandal unless it cancels this flight and others like it until the Windrush Lessons Learned Review has been published and its recommendations implemented."


    Image:Nadia Whittome called for the flight to be delayed until the Windrush review is published

    SNP immigration spokesman Stuart McDonald said the government's action could leave 41 British children without a father in the country.


    Windrush campaigner and Labour MP David Lammy urged the government to reassure MPs that there were no British nationals on the flight.


    He added: "People watching see the way that this government holds with such disrespect the contribution of West Indian, Caribbean and black people in this country. When, when will black lives matter again?"


    The Windrush generation were named after the ship that brought migrants to the UK from the Caribbean in 1948.

    Commonwealth citizens who arrived in the UK before 1973 were automatically granted indefinite leave to remain but many of them were not given any documents to confirm their status.

    In recent years, some have been denied access to services, held in detention or removed, despite living legally in the country for decades.


    Reacting to Ms Whittome's request last week, Boris Johnson said: "The people of this country will think it right to send back foreign national offenders."


    Labour shadow immigration minister Bell Ribeiro-Addy said: "Mass deportation by charter flight is the most brutal and inhumane way to remove people from this country.


    "It often lacks due process, has little regard for deportees safety, and even less for their right to a family life.


    "After the Windrush scandal, we expect better.


    "But this government will stop at nothing to maintain its hostile environment."

    Last year, 29 convicted criminals were deported to Jamaica on the first deportation flight since the Windrush scandal.

    The Home Office previously said that under the UK Borders Act 2007, a deportation order must be made where a foreign national has been convicted of an offence and received a custodial sentence of 12 months or more.


    Possible exceptions include where this would breach human rights or the UK's obligations under the Refugee Convention.


    A Home Office spokesman has previously said: "The planned charter flight to Jamaica is specifically for removing foreign criminals.


    "Those detained for removal include people convicted of manslaughter, rape, violent crime and dealing Class-A drugs."

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    Seventeen deportees arrived in the island on a chartered flight from the United Kingdom on Tuesday afternoon.

    Following their arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, the returned residents were processed at the Specialised Operations Unit of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and released.

    1 day ago


    WATCH: Deportees arrive in Jamaica from UK | Loop News

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