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‘I felt like a criminal’: the ruinous effect of the Home Office’s cheating claims (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are about 35,000 overseas students whom the Home Office accused of cheating in a government-approved English language test they were required to take as part of the process of applying for a renewal of their student visas. The allegations triggered a wave of dawn raids on student flats around the country.

About 2,500 students were subject to an enforced removal from the UK and another 7,500 left the country voluntarily after being warned that they faced arrest, detention and forced removal if they stayed. Thousands of those accused have spent years trying to prove their innocence.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow! You've outdone the Americans for the least justified case of anything called a "dawn raid."

They're students. You can just find them and arrest them, where they live. You knock. What are you worried about? Guns?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

The UK government is becoming increasingly fascist by the minute. Of course they're also a bunch of inept morons but they are still a threat.

If they can think of a draconian thing to do they will do it even if it's completely pointless. Especially if it's completely pointless. What they don't do is literally anything else. Why do you think the British population are so sick of them, and they are going to lose the next election so badly.