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World News Windrush: Amber Rudd facing fresh calls to quit AMBER Rudd is facing fresh calls to quit as home secretary after it emerged officials were set targets for the removal of illegal immigrants. On Wednesday Ms Rudd denied targets were used, when she faced MPs investigating the problems faced by the Windrush generation. She has now admitted to “local targets” for “internal performance management” but said she had not known about them. She vowed to ban them if they were being used “inappropriately”. But Labour’s shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said Ms Rudd should resign as a matter of “honour” after confirming the existence of the targets, which union officials have said are prominently displayed on posters at regional immigration centres. She told BBC News Ms Rudd was “trying to blame officials” but that was not how the Home Office worked and the “direction will have come from the centre”. She did not see how Ms Rudd could survive in her job, she added, “unless she is only there as a human shield for Theresa May”. Asked how the targets had impacted on Windrush migrants, Ms Abbott said: “Immigration officials may have been looking for soft targets in the shape of West Indian pensioners who don’t have hot shot lawyers.” Her Labour frontbench colleague, Dawn Butler, told the BBC’s Daily Politics Mrs May was “presiding over a government that has policies that are institutionally racist”. The SNP’s home affairs spokeswoman Alison Thewlis also called for Ms Rudd’s resignation, saying she was presiding over a department “out of control” and it was “no surprise” targets existed as there was “a litany of callous
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incompetence” at the Home Office. Conservative backbenchers, including Sir Nicholas Soames and Philip Davies rallied behind Ms Rudd, with Mr Davies saying most members of the public backed tougher action against illegal immigration and accused Labour and the SNP of being “out of touch with working class communities”. Answering an urgent question in the Commons, Ms Rudd said: “I have never agreed that there should be specific removal targets and I would never support a policy that puts targets ahead of people. “The immigration arm of the Home Office has been using local targets for internal performance management. “These were not published targets against which performance was assessed, but if they were used inappropriately then I am clear that this will have to change. “I have asked officials to provide me with a full picture of performance measurement tools which are used at all levels, and will update the House and the Home Affairs select committee as soon as possible.” An inspection report from December 2015, seen by the BBC, showed targets for the voluntary departures of people regarded as having no right to stay in the UK existed at that time. The Windrush row erupted after it emerged relatives of migrants from Commonwealth Caribbean countries who settled in the UK from the late 1940s to the 1970s had been declared illegal immigrants if they could not provide a range of documentation which proved they had lived in the UK continuously. Some of the Windrush generation have been threatened with deportation, lost their jobs or been refused access to medical treatment.
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Judge: Bars are allowed to throw out Trump supporters A MANHATTAN judge ruled Wednesday that there’s nothing “outrageous” about throwing the president’s supporters out of bars — because the law doesn’t protect against political discrimination. Philadelphia accountant Greg Piatek, 31, was bounced from a West Village watering hole in January 2017, just after Trump took the oath of office, for wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap, according to his lawsuit over the incident. “Anyone who supports Trump — or believes in what you believe — is not welcome here! And you need to leave right now because we won’t serve you!” Piatek claims the staff of The Happiest Hour on West 10th Street told him after he and his pals complained about the rude service they were getting from a bartender. So he sued in Manhattan Supreme Court, claiming the incident “offended his sense of being American.” But on Wednesday, when the bar’s lawyer, Elizabeth Conway, pointed out that only religious, and not political, beliefs are protected under state and city discrimination laws, saying, “supporting Trump is not a religion” — Piatek pivoted. “The purpose of the hat is that he wore it because he was visiting the 9/11 Memorial,” his attorney Paul Liggieri told Justice David Cohen in court Wednesday. “He was paying spiritual tribute to the victims of 9/11. The Make American Great Again hat was part of his spiritual belief,” Liggieri claimed. Piatek and his pals had, in fact, visited the memorial before the bar. “Rather than remove his hat, instead he held true to his spiritual
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After nearly an hour of argument the judge took a short break and then returned to the bench with his ruling. “Plaintiff does not state any faithbased principle to which the hat relates,” Cohen said in tossing the case. Piatek had sued for unspecified emotional damages, but the judge said the incident amounted to nothing more than a “petty” slight. “Here the claim that plaintiff was not served and eventually escorted out of the bar because of his perceived support for President Trump is not outrageous conduct,” the judge ruled. Liggieri said he plans to review the decision to determine whether or not to appeal. (NYPost)
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