UK vows 'humane' immigration policy as scandal grows

AP  |  London 

Britain's is promising to ensure the country's immigration policy is "humane" as uproar spreads over authorities' mistreatment of long-term legal residents from the

Amber Rudd, who faced mounting pressure Sunday to resign, says she will speak Monday to the about the immigration scandal.

The furor began when newspaper reported that some people who came to Britain from the in the decades after World War II have been refused medical care or threatened with deportation because they could not produce paperwork to prove their status.

Rudd's position worsened after she said the didn't have targets for deporting people - only for a memo to emerge mentioning specific targets for "enforced removals." Rudd says she didn't see the memo.

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First Published: Sun, April 29 2018. 17:00 IST