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	Podcast:		Best of Today
	Episode:		Windrush generation faces deportation
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:09:50
	Publish Date:		2018-04-16 04:37:00
	Description:		Many long-term immigrants are fearing for their future, having been told they are in the UK illegally. Thousands of people, known as the Windrush generation, arrived in the UK as children in the first wave of Commonwealth immigration 70 years ago. Under the 1971 Immigration Act, all Commonwealth citizens already living in the UK were given indefinite leave to remain. However, the Home Office did not keep a record of those granted leave to remain or issue any paperwork confirming it, meaning it is difficult for the individuals to now prove they are in the UK legally. The Today programme hears from Guy Hewitt, the High Commissioner to Barbados in London, and from Arthur Torrington, one of the co-founders of the Windrush Foundation - a charity which plays a leading role in preserving the history of the arrival of the first post-War wave of Caribbean settlers. (Photo: The "Empire Windrush" arriving at Tilbury Docks from Jamaica in 1948, credit: Getty Images)
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