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Sickening: if being 'deported in error' to Jamaica, a country you might not have visited in 50 years, UKgov advises:
Watch your wallet,
Put on a local accent,
'try to be "Jamaican"'
#Windrush

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Of course brutal racist policy & practice at Home Office didn't start with #Windrush scandal.
Theresa May fought a legal battle to deport a kidney transplant patient to Nigeria regardless of urgent medical advice that this would kill her:
@SHINEreports opendemocracy.net/shinealight/cl…

British children are routinely being bereaved of their parents by a Home Office bent on deportation at all costs @SHINEreports (didn't start with #Windrush ) opendemocracy.net/shinealight/re…

A child was locked up in a prison-like UK immigration detention centre for 151 days alongside adult men (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports opendemocracy.net/shinealight/cl…

Home Office told fathers deported to from UK to Jamaica:
Do your parenting by Skype
(Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports
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Bruno Dos Santos was locked up under immigration powers. They cancelled a planned brain scan. He died. Bruno was 25 years old. (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports opendemocracy.net/shinealight/ph…

People on deportation flights have been tied up "like animals" in restraints so extreme they are rarely used in prisons (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports
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Home Office contractors shackled an 84 year old Canadian man as he lay dying in hospital (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) opendemocracy.net/shinealight/ph…

“Headbutt the bitch, I’d beat her up,” said one #Serco guard, caught on camera at the notorious UK immigration detention centre Yarl's Wood
(Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports opendemocracy.net/shinealight/lu…

Tahir Mehmood was 43 when he died in UK immigration detention. A guard said he hadn't been trained in what to do when someone stopped breathing.

(Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports opendemocracy.net/shinealight/ph…

Jimmy Mubenga, 46, had 5 children. "Unlawfully killed" by Home Office contractors on a deportation flight, using restraints that doctors and lawyers had warned were dangerous
(Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports
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2 of the 3 guards who restrained Jimmy Mubenga to death had appallingly racist material on their cellphones
(Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports
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Women sexually abused by guards at Yarl's Wood, and witnesses to abuse, were deported even when medical evidence supported their claims, prisons inspectors said (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports
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Home Office expedited deportation of a 5 year old boy who was sexually abused at Yarl's Wood. His mum's pleas for help for her son, & an independent investigation, were refused.
(Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports
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NHS researchers found disturbed children locked up at Yarl's Wood playing "sex games" & shitting their pants. Home Office ministers &civil servant tried to bury the research.
(Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports
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We've reported on Home Office abuses @SHINEreports since 2009.
Work that gives just a glimpse of damage being done in our name.

Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal. But with enuf public opposition Home Office brutality could end with the #Windrush scandal.

Here's @DavidLammy roasting Amber Rudd today in Parliament on the #Windrush scandal goo.gl/BhwxDu

Racist tabloids fuel hate and drive racist policy—MPs fear #DailyMail & Sun.
Here's some (welcome) front page hypocrisy on the #Windrush scandal

here's @JenniferAllsopp of @LIDC_UK @DSPI_Oxford on multiple Home Office abuses over years:
(HO brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal)

has been exposing more horrors from Theresa May's Hostile Environment programme.

police have shopped victims of crime — including rape — to immigration authorities.

Home Office brutality didn't start with the Windrush scandal:

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How Theresa May's #HostileEnvironment began
Important thread:
#Windrush

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