UK still struggling to address Windrush scandal failings

By DANICA KIRKA
Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government agency that oversees immigration is still struggling to address many of the problems that upended the lives of thousands of people of Caribbean descent wrongly targeted as illegal migrants, an independent reviewer said Thursday, more than four years after the scandal rocked Britain. The reviewer, Wendy Williams, made that assessment in a report on how the Home Office has responded to her original inquiry into the Windrush scandal. Williams said in a 2020 report that “institutional ignorance and thoughtlessness” surrounding the issue of race were partly responsibly for the scandal,