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Tony Hall has lived in the UK for 50 years. Why is the Home Office trying to deport him?

He arrived in the UK aged 12, but for the last 14 years Hall has been under threat of being sent back to Barbados – a country he doesn’t remember and where he has no surviving relatives When Tony Hall was released from detention in 2012, his family rallied around to support him.

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