Amazing to see!! 🙌🏽 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/27/black-public-figures-urge-airlines-not-to-carry-out-home-office-deportation

The Home Office are doing and saying what they did in 2016, 2017, 2019, and Feb 2020.

And we need to reject the separation of Windrush/'illegal immigrant', and the narratives on 'criminals' (further reading thread)...
Black public figures urge airlines not to carry out Home Office deportation

Eighty-two signatories including David Olusoga and Naomie Harris try to stop deportation of 50 Jamaicans

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/27/black-public-figures-urge-airlines-not-to-carry-out-home-office-deportation
Windrush migrants share their lives with so-called 'illegal immigrants'. UK immigration controls, designed to restrict the migration of Commonwealth migrants, have turned newer migrants into illegals and then criminalised transnational family connections. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/07/windrush-legal-illegal-migrants-caribbean-deportation-uk
The Windrush deportations were wrong – and so are all the others | Luke de Noronha

The UK authorities categorise Caribbean migrants according to the date they arrived. But people should not be labelled in this way , says the writer and academic Luke de Noronha

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/07/windrush-legal-illegal-migrants-caribbean-deportation-uk
Racism at the border is inseparable from racism within Britain; they license and feed off one another...we need to challenge the broader system of austerity & racist criminal justice that restricts the possibilities for “contribution” in the first place. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/06/sajid-javid-windrush-deportation-criminal-jamaica
Sajid Javid’s deportation flight shows the hostile environment in action | Luke de Noronha

The home secretary has learnt nothing from the Windrush scandal as he deports ‘criminals’ to Jamaica, says the academic Luke de Noronha

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/06/sajid-javid-windrush-deportation-criminal-jamaica
The law changes around people; illegality is produced & creates divisions within our families, communities & classrooms. We should see windrush migrants and ‘illegal immigrants’ as kin, rather than as good and bad migrants to be isolated from one another. https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3771-the-windrush-generation-and-illegal-immigrants-are-both-our-kin
The ‘Windrush generation’ and ‘illegal immigrants’ are both our kin

In addition to the newfound sympathy for the Windrush generation, we should remember that ‘illegal immigrants’ are our kin, especially if we are to challenge the racism at the heart of the ‘hostile...

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3771-the-windrush-generation-and-illegal-immigrants-are-both-our-kin
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Sorry for @'ing + plugging, but the Home Office are playing, again, the 'serious criminals' card 😠, & we need to respond and reject their racist politics of division & demonisation. Fuck contribution and innocence.

If you want a book length examination: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526143990/ 
Manchester University Press - Deporting Black Britons

Deporting Black Britons - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Deporting Black Britons by Luke de Noronha.

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526143990/
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