{"id":14789,"date":"2018-04-20T02:02:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T06:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=14789"},"modified":"2018-04-20T02:02:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T06:02:33","slug":"windrush-exposes-latent-racism-says-gaston-browne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/windrush-exposes-latent-racism-says-gaston-browne\/","title":{"rendered":"Windrush exposes latent racism, says Gaston Browne"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Caribbean leader has hinted that the maltreatment of Windrush-era immigrants was fuelled by underlying racist attitudes among Home Office officials.<\/p>

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Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, said that the way people had been denied services and threatened with deportation reflected a \u201cdeeper cultural problem\u201d.<\/p>\n

Although he refrained from calling them racist, he said some officials could benefit from \u201ca period of introspection\u201d. Mr Browne said that he had not let what he called \u201ca very regrettable situation\u201d undermine his faith in Britain.<\/p>

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The Windrush affair has revealed that immigrants who came in the first arrivals from the Caribbean have been prevented from having medical and other services because they were unable to prove their residency status. Some feared they would be thrown\u00a0out of Britain .<\/span><\/p>

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As the fallout from the scandal continued, a claim by Theresa May\u2019s former chief of staff that she had opposed sending vans on to London streets telling illegal immigrants to \u201cgo home\u201d appeared to be contradicted by official accounts.<\/p>\n

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