12 March 2019
"Chagos Islanders are at risk of becoming the next Windrush scandal, lawyers have warned after third generation families were threatened with deportation..."
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UK: Chagos Islanders treatment leads to fears of new Windrush scandal (The Telegraph, link):
"Chagos Islanders are at risk of becoming the next Windrush scandal, lawyers have warned after third generation families were threatened with deportation.
Lawyers acting for the families say hundreds are being subjected to the Government's "hostile" environment policy and have accused the Home Office of unfairly deporting children, who have been educated and raised in Britain, once they turn 18.
Many of the families first moved to Britain in 1967, when they were forcibly removed from their Indian Ocean home by the British government.
However, although first and second generation Islanders are entitled to British citizenship, the problem arises for third generation children if they are born overseas."
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