Dr Joe Aldred spoke after a new report by MPs and peers found immigration officials “unlawfully” locked up two people, even though they had the right to be in the UK.
The Churches Together in England’s lead for Pentecostal and multicultural relations told Premier: “Whenever somebody is at home and they are wrongfully detained, that is always going to be a trauma…
“Therefore, it is right that the background is investigated, and we find out why and what needs to be done about it.”
The Home Office was responsible for “shocking” treatment of individuals who were locked up unless they could satisfy officials of their entitlement to be in the country, the parliamentary inquiry concluded.
It said: “Such an approach is simply unlawful – it is for the Home Office to satisfy itself that it has a power to detain an individual – not for an individual to have to satisfy the Home Office that they should not be detained.”
Dr Joe, who is part of the so-called Windrush Generation which arrived in the UK from Caribbean countries during the 1950s and 1960s, said it was important to remember only a tiny minority have encountered problems.
He added: “What we find – from my own experience of working in the community – is that the vast majority of the Windrush Generation have indeed sorted their status and have documentation to prove their citizenship.”
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