These are people that were granted British citizenship after being part of the British colonies and were invited to move to England after WWII to help rebuild. Now after 50 to 70 years, they and their children are told they're to be deported.

@Angelface That's criminal.

@DUCHESSA it is criminal and since so many came after that war and became part of the rebuilding, they never kept any paperwork.
"LONDON — Jamaica-born Beverley Boothe followed her parents to Britain in 1979. She says her mother and father both had U.K. citizenship. She hasn't left the country since.

So it was a shock when Boothe, now 56, got a letter informing her that she would be deported from where she's studied, worked and raised five children.

"This is my life. Here. I've got my children, I've got my grandkids," she told NBC News.

Boothe isn't alone. Thousands of similar cases have emerged, unleashing a scandal that has engulfed British Prime Minister Theresa May.

Other Caribbean-born U.K. residents, including many who are elderly, say they have been threatened with deportation, with some detained and denied access to health care and benefits. The revelations have prompted accusations that the government has betrayed a generation of black Britons who helped rebuild the country following the devastation wreaked by World War II.

They became known as the "Windrush" generation, after the ship that brought the first 492 passengers from Jamaica, Trinidad and other islands to Britain in 1948. A total of 500,000 workers and their families were eventually invited to the U.K. from former colonies and granted citizenship as subjects of the empire.
Many of them have been in the country so long that they assumed they would never need to present documentation to prove they were in the U.K. legally.

The scandal was exacerbated last week when it emerged that many of the Windrush generation's original landing documents had been deliberately destroyed by the U.K.'s interior ministry, known as the Home Office, in 2009. In many cases, this was a key piece of evidence needed to prove an individual's citizenship status.

"The Home Office destroyed the evidence that gives people to opportunity to say, 'Look, of course I am British,'" opposition lawmaker David Lammy said. "It's very, very hard when you ask these people in their 60s to go back to the 1950s and 1960s and find their documentation."

@Angelface I read about what they did. I am sorry.

Trump has not touched any US (naturalized) Citizen

@DUCHESSA do you have a backup on that?

@Angelface See, to obtain the Legal Residence and, eventually the USA Citizenship, a person must prove he/she entered the country legally...otherwise that person won't obtain said status. IAW, there is no reason to "touch" a USA (naturalized) Citizen.

BTW, to apply for USA Citizenship is not mandatory....

BTW II, those with Legal Residenship (Green card) are also w/o worries.

BTW III , I am a naturalized USA Citizen and I am answering you from my home in New York.

@Angelface Don't allow those who despise Trump to fool you.........specially right now that a "wagon train" with thousands of Central Americans has reached the USA-Mexican border with intention of requesting asylum in USA.

@DUCHESSA But he has. Just recently he has sent agents to some Mexicans in CA and asked for them to prove that they have become US citizens. This was on the news stations about a week ago and they were very upset with the whole deal.

@Marine Don't take to much of what you hear on the news since a person...AS LONG AS HE/SHE IS A LEGAL RESIDENT (Green Card holder) can live in USA until he/she dies or decides to move out of the land.

No person who is legal in the country can be asked if he/she is a citizen. IAW, he/she can be asked to show his/her GREEN CARD.
If an ICE agent ask my neighbor if he is legal in USA...he will show his Green Card....and the questioning stops right then and there.

TO BECOME A USA CITIZEN IS NOT MANDATORY AND A PERSON CAN APPLY FOR THIS STATUS ANYTIME AFTER FIVE YEARS HOLDING THE LEGAL RESIDENCE PAPERS.
I became a citizen after eight years of being a legal resident....my sister -because she can't live w/o imitating me- did the same after 25 years with a Green Card.
There are other terms limits / conditions / exceptions to apply for citizenship.