> [Windrush] was largely down to incompetence and not malice. The screwup with documentation was negligence. It's incompetence if it's just a screwup. It's n

> [Windrush] was largely down to incompetence and not malice. The screwup with documentation was negligence. It's incompetence if it's just a screwup. It's negligence when it can be foreseen to cause material harm, which it clearly could by those working in the same office as sets the enforcement policies. Policies intended to cause immediate harm to whoever's documentation happens to be screwed up - which is inevitable (known to be inevitable from appeal court statistics) - instead of treating people reasonably while sorting out the documentation. That part is malice. The Home Office policy of "deport first, appeal later" is not designed to allow errors to be sorted out while treating people in a civil manner. (It often prevents people from accessing their own belongings and paperwork.) It's designed to prevent people from sorting things out unless they have someone still in the UK to do it on their behalf. That boosts the deportation quotas and keeps the appeal rate unjustly low.