What sort of crazy country persecutes the law-abiding while rewarding jihadi terrorists?

Apr 21, 2018 by Jill

by Andrew Devine, The Conservative Woman:

A country that would – intentionally or otherwise – deport its own citizens or deprive them of access to basic services because they are missing paperwork, but lets jihadis who want to murder and maim stroll in to the country and rewards them with front-of-the-queue welfare perks, really needs to grab itself by the scruff of the neck and have a word with itself.

In 1948, the British Nationality Act quite rightly gave UK citizenship rights to citizens of British colonies and members of the commonwealth. The passing of this legislation inspired what came to be known as the Windrush generation to emigrate from across the West Indies to Britain. Whilst this act has been superseded by subsequent legislation, the Immigration Act of 1971 gave the right to abode to citizens of former British colonies resident in Britain who had yet to apply formally for British citizenship.

But many legal immigrants from this generation either never applied for citizenship, or their children didn’t and the state never got on with the job of tracking them down to ensure they had the official documentation that evidenced their guaranteed right of abode. As a result, over the last few years, some – we don’t yet know how many – were caught up in the Home Office’s necessary clampdown on the huge levels of illegal immigration into the country. It is not just a grave injustice but ironic that those with a legal right to citizenship who came to Britain as children with their parents after the war to help rebuild the country have faced threats of deportation because the UK Home Office was obsessed with bureaucratic box ticking, falling foul of an attempted illegal clampdown – not the illegals themselves.

What makes the Windrush scandal even more enraging is that at the same time home-grown jihadi ISIS fighters have been allowed to return to Britain where the government has a policy of giving them preferential treatment when it comes to housing and access to education and training opportunities.

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