I Came to See the Land of My Fathers but Was Treated Like a Terrorist ; Alejandro Jones Flew to Britain in Search of His Welsh Roots ... And Ended Up in a Cell Before Leaving Heathrow
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LEJANDRO Jones takes a deep pull at one of the cigarettes he finds so incredibly expensive in Wales, and his Spanish-inflected chatter ceases as he gathers his thoughts.
His mind reels back to the nightmarish four hours over which he was interrogated in London two months ago as he tried to visit the land of his ancestors, tossed into a cell with other 'foreign undesirables'.See the full content of this document
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I Came to See the Land of My Fathers but Was Treated Like a Terrorist ; Alejandro Jones Flew to Britain in Search of His Welsh Roots ... And Ended Up in a Cell Before Leaving Heathrow
He is the great great grandson of John Daniel Evans, one the pioneers who boarded the Mimosa in Liverpool 140 years ago this coming Wednesday, and one of the 153 hardy souls bound for Argentina where they hoped to found a New Wales.
He feels particularly strongly about the lack of knowledge and crass indifference he says immigr...See the full content of this document
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