Where did our immigration system come from?
New Economics Podcast
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This week a controversial deportation flight took off for jamaica. Legal challenges meant that only a tenth of the 90 people due to be deported were actually on the plane. The imigration system is in need of desperate reform, but not of the kind being proposed in this speech. Critics say that our immigration system is unnecessarily cruel. But what is its origin story? How has it changed over time, and what does it have to do with britoin's colonial history?
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