The UK
has told
a man of age 90, developing dementia, that he has to go to the US
before he can apply for a visa to live with his British wife. If he
went to the US, he might not be competent to apply for the visa;
supposing he did so, he might not live long enough as a homeless
person to see the answer to the application.
The many cruel immigration decisions coming from the UK vary in their
details, but they all embody a basic attitude of rigidity even to the
point of cruelty. That attitude is no accident; it has been instilled
somehow.