Are the Windrush generation really being deported from the U.K?

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Last week the news cycle was all about black violent crime in London and the spike in murders of young black men, by young black men. The center left wing TV media didn’t really know how to report it as it was what it was and highlighted a negative trait of one particular immigrant group in London. Newsreaders shuffled their papers nervously. Thankfully the police flooded the areas and the gang feud has calmed down and just one murder this week. It’s out of the news-cycle so may as well now be happening. The media being the media have moved on to the next story and on safer ground with this one around race on the topic of alleged forced deportations of older black people back to the West Indies and Commonwealth Countries from the Windrush generation. The angle is that these are mostly Windrush adults being asked to leave, people bought in as kids to the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s to parents prepared to work to get Britain back on its feet after the war. As a white guy I really respect these guys. But some have been getting letters from the Home Office offering them free flights to go home as their papers are not in order. In fact the last three governments helped to destroy all their historic boarding cards on those ships that got them here in the 1960s quite recently. We know what why. In 2014 the center right wing government introduced tough immigration laws aimed at deporting illegal immigrants here. The idea was to stop them getting access to services like benefits, health services, driving permits and employment and so ‘encourage’ them to leave, the inference being they come here for those things. Unfortunately some older Windrush residents got caught up with this. When they arrived in the United Kingdom back then they were classed as British citizens but didn’t have the same paperwork and records as modern immigrants have today and so when they applied for passports they came up on the new system as red flags, as you would for someone here for ages with no passport. The idea of the new rules was also to stop illegal’s using human rights laws to delay their deportation and burn up legal aid here. Most asylum seekers here are economic migrants and we really don’t need them when we have mass Eastern European labor on tap. So far 113 older people have come forward to say they have been bullied to leave the UK as their papers are not up to date, not the 50,000 the left wing press are saying. The left wing press are also not talking about the fact those new rules are hitting all immigrants, white or black. In fact Yarls Wood, the deportation centre you go to when you are arrested and outlived your welcome, said they are not seeing old black people in any numbers and were amazed when they heard the stories. They see mostly convicted criminals or younger overstayers. I think the truth is the get tough policy had targets to deport X amount of illegal’s and is seeing this particular group in the news because they are black. I don’t believe my government is actively trying to deport black Caribbean pensioners that helped to get this country back on its feet. I really don’t. I do think of the 113 named so far the majority of them will be over-stayers from the 1970s that don’t have papers and can now play the Windrush card, meaning human rights lawyer’s eyes will light up once again. These are, of course, some of the grandparents of London’s crime wave.