UK deportations to Jamaica

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Protests and legal challenges did not stop the UK from deporting a group of Jamaican nationals back to Jamaica last week. They’d each been convicted of crimes in the UK. But the BBC’s Greg McKenzie reports from Kingston that many of them lived in the UK for so long that they’re struggling to adapt to life in a country they do not know.

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