It didn't just affect the people who had arrived here perfectly legally all those years ago - the children of such people have been finding that they also are seen as non-persons, unable to work, or go to college and so forth.

I think these need to be recognised as not just immoral unjust and illegal acts on the part of the government, but as nothing short of criminal conspiracy. Will the Crown Prosecution Service have the courage to allow the courts to decide? No chance - the normal reason given for not prosecuting is that it's judged unlikely there could be a conviction. In this case the reason would be that the chance of conviction is only too high, if a jury had the chance.