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17.

DSR 11C

The whole status of BDTC citizenshin will be undermined by

the Bill, and it will be argued that the Government (by

supporting it) has tacitly abandoned the concept of BDTC and

confirmed suspicions that it is a 'second class' citizenship.

It will be necessary to resist further concessions because

of their most serious immigration implications. The

Falklands concession will be criticised as being racially

a position which the 1981 Act studiously

discriminatory

avoids.

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