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ACTIVISTS have demanded an end to mass deportation flights to Jamaica.
The Movement for Justice By Any Means Necessary campaign group has sent an open letter to the Jamaican high commissioner, Seth George Ramocan, calling on him and the Jamaican government to refuse to accept the Home Office’s latest deportation flights.
The letter, which has not received a reply, was signed by 51 campaigning individuals and families, who also demanded an agreement that people who came to Britain as children should never be deported and for the Jamaican government to support an immigration amnesty.
The campaign will hold a protest outside the High Commission on April 27 to press their demand.
The Windrush scandal dates back to post-war government policies designed to limit the number of black and Asian British nationals from settling in Britain.
In 2018 Commonwealth citizens, mainly from the Caribbean, were wrongly detained, denied legal rights and threatened with deportation as part of a new “hostile environment” policy introduced by the Tories.
In at least 83 cases, people were wrongly deported from Britain under the policy.
The Jamaican High Commission has been contacted for comment.
