(SOUNDBITE) (English) WINDRUSH VICTIM, WINSTON ROBINSON, SAYING: "I'm a man that worked hard and lived a good life." Winston Robinson came to Britain in the sixties, as a child of the Windrush generation.

But after 51 years he found himself jobless, homeless and even facing deportation, after an immigration scandal that rocked Britain. (SOUNDBITE) (English) WINDRUSH VICTIM, WINSTON ROBINSON, SAYING: "It's that sense of helplessness, like someone's put you in prison, and you have just been locked up [...] Something horrible was happening to me, and there was nothing I could do about it." (UPSOT) (English narration) BROADCAST AFTER THE WINDRUSH DOCKED IN BRITAIN: "...ready and willing to do any kind of job that will help the motherland along the road to prosperity…" 70 years ago today (June 22), the first ship carrying Caribbean workers and their families docked in Britain, to plug labor shortages after World War Two.

Those on board should be entitled to remain indefinitely.

But as the government cracks down on illegal immigration, Robinson was one of hundreds to be told there was no record of him arriving. (SOUNDBITE) (English) WINDRUSH VICTIM, WINSTON ROBINSON, SAYING: "I came here as a child, a minor, so I just assumed that I was amalgamated in the system, whatever I achieved in life was done in this country.

So when you come and start telling me I'm a Jamaican national and (want to) send me back to Jamaica, that was the biggest puzzle to me, because what do I know about Jamaica?" The British government tried to brush off the fiasco as an administrative error.

It says new migration measures weren't supposed to target the Windrush generation.

The scandal brought down interior minister Amber Rudd, and Robinson was eventually given permanent residency rights.

But for the 60 year-old, who says he's lost everything, that's not enough: (SOUNDBITE) (English) WINDRUSH VICTIM, WINSTON ROBINSON, SAYING: "It's because of your madness why I was taken out of my job.

I was there for ten years [...] They've got to rectify that.

And whatever form of compensation, the companies...

It's got be based on stress, anxiety and basically taking away my liberation."