In 2013 Caribbean leaders had put the deportations on the agenda at the Commonwealth meeting in Sri Lanka and in April 2016 Caribbean governments told Philip Hammond , the Foreign Secretary , that immigrants who had spent most of their lives in the UK were facing deportation and their concerns were passed on at the time to the Home Office . Shortly before the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in April 2018 , twelve Caribbean countries made a formal request for a meeting with the British Prime Minister to discuss the issue , which was rejected by Downing Street
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Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2013
Windrush scandal