Many ‘foreign’ criminals are actually British | Letter

Solange Valdez-Symonds and Steve Valdez-Symonds say the Home Office’s plan to publish the nationality of offenders will misrepresent these individualsThe Home Office’s plan to publish data on the nationalities of people designated as “foreign” criminals risks obscuring rather than shedding light on truth and injustice (Cooper ‘pandering’ to Farage by ordering publication of foreign criminals’ nationalities, 22 April).Many people wrongly designated as foreign are born in this country, have always lived here and have the legal right to British citizenship. These individuals are as British as any of their peers, but due to their parents’ immigration status, they were not automatically granted British citizenship at birth. Instead, they have needed someone to take steps to register their right from early childhood to that nationality. Continue reading...

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