1/5 Today is #WindrushDay. It marks the day 72 years ago when the Empire Windrush ship arrived here at Tilbury Docks and gave its name to a generation of migrants from the Caribbean. It’s a day of celebration, but also a day of confronting injustice...

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2/5 As we celebrate today, we shouldn’t forget the thousands of British citizens who have fallen victim to the #HostileEnvironment policy. Those who arrived legally in the UK in the 1950s & 60s, & who to this day are still seeking justice for being stripped of their rights.

3/5 There is surely no clearer indication of why the #BlackLivesMatterUK movement is so needed in the UK than the government’s failure – more than 3 years after the #WindrushScandal – to either make amends for its impacts, or scrap the ‘hostile environment’ altogether.

4/5 This scandal was a rare example of the daily outrage of our immigration system breaking through into the public consciousness, but it won’t be the last scandal unless our government starts treating migrants with humanity, not hostility.