Caribbean nations demand solution to 'illegal immigrants' anomaly

Jamaicans leave the HMS Empire Windrush at Tilbury in 1948.Caribbean diplomats have condemned the Home Office’s treatment of many long-term Commonwealth-born UK residents as “illegal immigrants”.At an unprecedented meeting of high commissioners from all the Caribbean Commonwealth nations, diplomats called on the UK government to adopt a more compassionate approach to individuals who arrived from Caribbean countries as children in the 1950s and 1960s and were never formally natu