My deportation threat still hell
ONE of the Windrush generation who spent two years under the threat of deportation said she was still “going through hell”.
Paulette Wilson, 61, came to Britain from Jamaica aged 10 in the late 60s. But decades later she got a letter accusing her of being an illegal immigrant.
The former Commons cook was held at Yarl’s Wood detention centre in Bedford before finally being told she could stay. Paulette, from Wolverhampton, had been denied benefits and access to healthcare and refused permission to work for two and a half years.
She said: “It’s not ended because I’ve just got a card saying I have a right to stay in England but I still have to renew it in 2024.
“It’s hard for me to put into words. I’m still hurt, that’s all I can say.” He daughter Natalie Barnes added: “We’re just thinking we’ll be going through this again in 2024.”