“I want to apologize to you today. This issue has come to light because of measures that we introduced recently. And this has resulted in some people who, through no fault of their own, has resulted in some people now needing to be able to evidence their immigration status.” “They’ve come to seek work in Britain, and are ready and willing to do any kind of job that will help the motherland along the road to prosperity.” “When I was told that I had no status, or had no reason to be in the school, it felt like if my whole world had just been torn from underneath me. To have someone come and say to you: ‘You’re illegal,’ or ‘You don’t have the rights to be here, you don’t have the right papers.’ It was shocking.” “I am today announcing a new dedicated team that will be set up to help these people evidence their right to be in this country and access services.” “When my parents and their generation arrived in this country under the Nationality Act of 1948, they arrived here as British citizens. Can she explain how many have been deported. This is a day of national shame! If you lay down with dogs, you get fleas, and that is what has happened with this far right rhetoric in this country.” “So let’s make them very welcome, as they begin their new life over here.”