Can we clear up this "illegal" thing
If the arrest, detention and threat of deportation of citizens legally living in Britain is not covered by British law, then Britain is a police state
This doesn't just involve arrest, but at leas one legal resident of Britain who went to the West Indies to visit relatives has been denied the right to return home for eight years - we don't know yet if there are more who have experienced the same treatment
If this is not a national crime, then it is a human rights abuse and needs to be treated as such
Jim Carroll