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Meeting sets agenda for confronting ‘hostile environment’
SELMA JAMES looks at how to confront the Tory policies directed against all refugees and migrants
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On May 31 150 people came together for We All Have the Right to Be Here, a meeting to confront the “hostile environment.”

Caribbean people had been invited to rebuild war-torn Britain, the first wave arriving on the Windrush Empire in 1948. 

As “subjects of the Queen” they were British citizens. They worked hard often for the lowest wages, but now they and their descendants were discarded and told to leave.

Britain benefited from our blood, sweat and tears. Now they have to give us our rights, alongside the rights of every immigrant who wants to stay. Britain owes us. We don’t owe Britain

  • Restore citizenship and pay compensation to all the Windrush generation and their descendants.
  • Immediate amnesty: stop all deportations until the Windrush crisis is resolved, and the hostile environment is abolished. 
  • Scrap the 2014 legislation which turns us into border guards against our neighbours. 
  • Restore legal aid.
  • End destitution. 
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