UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd has abruptly resigned in the scandal over the country's illegal and unnecessarily nasty treatment of immigrants from Commonwealth countries.

"The prime minister has tonight accepted the resignation of the home secretary," said a spokesman for the office of PM Theresa May.

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Ms. Rudd was facing a grilling in Parliament on Monday, where 200 MPs signed a letter accusing her of making up immigration policy "on the hoof", and demanding Prime Minister Theresa May enshrine protections for the "Windrush Generation" into law.  Named after the first of many ships that brought them to the UK after World War II, these are the adult children of people from the former colonies and Commonwealth nations who came looking for a better life and filled worker shortfalls. 

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Living and working in the UK for decades, the members of the Windrush Generation correctly thought they were legal residents entitled to healthcare, pensions, and benefits.  But many have been wrongly denied these simple services, and in the worst cases have actually been deported to the countries of their birth with no histories or contacts there.  Records establishing some of the Windrush Generation's legal right to remain in the UK have been mysteriously "lost".

Critics say Ms. May pioneered the hostile policy towards the Windrush Generation when she was interior minister between 2010 and 2016, when Ms. Rudd picked up the ball and ran with it.  Rudd told parliament she was unaware of targets for removing "undocumented" migrants from Britain, but two leaks last week and on Sunday contradicted that - one of them being a letter Rudd wrote to May stating her intention to increase by 10 percent the deportations she claimed to know nothing about.

May is expected to name Rudd's replacement as early as Monday.