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Only 17% of victims involved in the Windrush scandal have received compensation as figures show £2.9m has been paid out to 300 people.
Official figures show the Home Office has received some 1,761 claims as of the end of December, with £2,869,068.16 paid out to 303 people.
The scandal, brought about in 2012 by the Government s hostile environment policy, saw migrants who arrived from the Caribbean between 1948 and 1973 wrongly deported, detained or stripped of their homes and jobs.
The Home Office has faced criticism for its response to the Windrush scandal, with Home Secretary Priti Patel last month pledging to overhaul the current system amid claims it was complicated and onerous
Published 18 Dec, 2020 by Zita Holbourne in
Immigration & Asylum, Politics
Content note: this article contains reference to suicide
Two weeks ago, the government deported 13 people to Jamaica. After the media flurry,
Zita Holbourne, national chair of Black Activists Rising Against Cuts (BARAC), documents the harrowing details of the deportations, and explains why the fight must continue.
Around a month ago, I and other anti-racist campaigners started to receive calls from people saying they or their loved ones had been detained, or that immigration officers were showing up at their homes. I immediately knew, even before I had heard of anyone receiving a removal notice, that there must be another mass deportation to Jamaica.