UK’s migrant policy has been clumsy and callous

Recent events have revealed the extent to which the Home Office and successive home secretaries have been driven by inappropriate business models in managing immigration and have been not only incompetent but callous in dealing with human dignity and liberty (The Windrush scandal demands a new policy to go with a new home secretary, 1 May).The fundamental problem with the Home Office’s policies is that it has framed immigration criteria on the basis of wealth and property rather than on gr