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Windrush scandal rumbles on 5 years after UK government's apology
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Charlotte Tobierre looks out the window at her house in Essex, England, Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Britain this week marks the 75th anniversary of the day the MV Windrush docked at the port of London. But even as the nation prepares to celebrate an event that reshaped modern Britain, thousands of those migrants, like Tobias Tobierre, are still waiting for compensation almost six years after the government acknowledged that they had been wrongly targeted by a crackdown on illegal immigration. - photo by AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali
LONDON (AP) — When Thomas Tobierre’s wife, Caroline, died in 2021, he didn’t know how he was going to pay for her funeral. That's because he had drained his savings while caught up in a U.K. immigration crackdown that improperly targeted legal residents largely from the Caribbean and other parts of the former British Empire. While a government compensation program eventually covered the cost of his wife's funeral, Tobierre is still fighting for reimbursement of the 14,000-pound pension ($17,891) he cashed in to make ends meet when no one would hire him because of his disputed right to work.