Families and lawyers call for end to deportations of long-term UK residents

Relatives of people sent to Jamaica this week say policy of double punishment is unfair

The families and lawyers of people who were deported to Jamaica this week have called on the government to stop expelling people who have lived in the UK since childhood.

At least nine people who had been due to be deported on Wednesday but who were given a last-minute reprieve have been in the UK since they were children. Media coverage of their cases appears to have prompted officials to reconsider decisions to remove them, although no explanation was given for the change of plan.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2GvpaTY