I’d agree it sounds tinfoily, but the Windrush scandal in the UK went along similar lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrush_scandal https://en.wikipedia.o

I’d agree it sounds tinfoily, but the Windrush scandal in the UK went along similar lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrush_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrush_scandal TLDR is that people who had permanent right to live in the UK and arrived as children were forcibly deported to countries they never lived in, via a humiliating process. The only clear reason for it was the principle of “hostile environment”, that is that life must be made difficult for illegal immigrants at every stage; went as far as people who were actually “legal”...