{"id":29870,"date":"2018-10-26T12:49:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29870"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:49:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:19:34","slug":"no-deal-on-illegal-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-deal-on-illegal-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"No deal on illegal migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-international\/no-india-uk-deal-on-illegal-migrants\/article23608671.ece\">No deal on illegal migrants<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discussions likely to continue at the Home Secretary-level<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The failure of Britain and India to sign a key memorandum of understanding on the return of illegal migrants during Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s visit on Wednesday has been greeted with surprise, as the agreement was seen as a key element of the visit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What India wants?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Better Visa access for professionals and students<\/p>\n<p><strong>The point of contention<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Britain wants India to step up the speed and volume of returns of Indians with no right to remain in the U.K<\/li>\n<li>Britain\u2019s expectations on these issues were beyond the level India was willing to commit to<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discussions on this issue are expected to continue at Home Secretary level next month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current situation in Britain: It is tightening immigration rules<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Windrush Generation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People who came from African and Caribbean countries under a rule allowing freedom of movement within\u00a0the Commonwealth in the year 1948 on the ship named HMT Empire Windrush<\/li>\n<li>Minors travelled on their parents&#8217; documents and some never registered for a passport as they did not intend to travel abroad<\/li>\n<li>These passengers on board the Windrush were invited to come to Britain after World War Two, to assist with labour shortages by the government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They were never asked for any documents proving their status and weren\u2019t given any documents from the authorities<\/li>\n<li>So now they are being asked to leave the UK due to lack of any document<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The bigger picture<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The British government is facing wider questions around its treatment of Commonwealth citizens, particularly as it pegs the Commonwealth as a route for post-Brexit trade to flourish<\/li>\n<li>The Windrush issue and the Indian [illegal returns memo] issue have suggested\u00a0that Britain is going in the direction of restricted access to people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No deal on illegal migrants Context Discussions likely to continue at the Home Secretary-level\u00a0 What has happened? The failure of Britain and India to sign a key memorandum of understanding on the return of illegal migrants during Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s visit on Wednesday has been greeted with surprise, as the agreement was seen as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-deal-on-illegal-migrants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No deal on illegal migrants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704811739},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}