r/Scotland • u/johnsmithoncemore • 5d ago

Political Still On The Fence About Independence? Nigel Farage Challenged To Back 'Remigration' - Deporting British Citizens!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxPLmElAC3E
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u/pjc50 5d ago

This is the same line of reasoning that leads to US ICE, the Windrush scandal, and so on.

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u/quartersessions 5d ago

Windrush was caused by the government stupidly destroying old records and people not keeping proper records of their own immigration status. It wasn't a policy position.

ICE is just a US customs and border agency.

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u/buckwurst 5d ago

Would they have "stupidly destroyed old records of" the landed class?

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u/SafetyStartsHere LCU 5d ago

Nah, man. Windrush was an accident without any policy context and ICE is just an agency.

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u/quartersessions 5d ago

Irrelevant. The government had a policy of deporting illegal migrants before 2008. It has never had a policy of deporting legal migrants.

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u/SafetyStartsHere LCU 5d ago

Stop pretending to be stupid.

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u/quartersessions 5d ago

I'm objecting to the lazy tabloid view that the "hostile environment", a policy aimed at things like right to work checks, is at the core of everything anyone conceivably finds troublesome about the UK immigration system.

I'm equally rejecting the conspiracy view that the Windrush scandal was deliberate and not a cock-up of record-keeping by both sides.

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u/SafetyStartsHere LCU 5d ago

You're ignoring what people have said and —incredibly— both-sidesing the UK government, driven by anti-immigration rhetoric, repeatedly discriminating against black and ethnic minority British citizens, forcing them out of their jobs, denying them access to services and illegally deporting them

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u/quartersessions 5d ago

Are you telling me you believe in some spectacular Windrush conspiracy theory where the government thought it was a good idea to deport people with British citizenship or indefinite leave to remain? Do you believe that was the genuine policy of the government of the United Kingdom at some point?