Pressure is growing on Boris Johnson to halt a flight set to deport 50 people to Jamaica until a report into the Windrush controversy is released.
More than 150 cross-party MPs and peers have written to the prime minister warning of the “unacceptable risk” of removing anyone with a potential Windrush claim.
The 2018 scandal saw at least 83 people with the right to live in the UK wrongly deported.
The Home Office has chartered a flight to Jamaica on February 11 “specifically for removing foreign criminals”.
Nadia Whittome, Labour MP for Nottingham East, organised the letter in protest at the move she says is intended to deport people who have been resident in the UK for decades.
The flight comes after a review commissioned in the wake of the Windrush scandal recommended deportations of foreign-born offenders, particularly those who came to the UK as children, should be reconsidered, according to a leaked copy of a draft report.
The leaked review, which was sent to the MP David Lammy in June 2019, reportedly said that forced removals should only be considered in the “most severe cases”.
News of the flight prompted Lammy to call for the flight to be suspended prior to the report and highlighted the impact on their families.
Whittome said: “The fact is that many of the individuals in question have lived in the UK since they were children and at least 41 British children are now at risk of losing their fathers through this charter flight.
“The government risks repeating the mistakes of the Windrush scandal unless it cancels this flight and others like it until the Windrush Lessons Learned Review has been published and its recommendations implemented.”
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is among those calling for Johnson to intervene.
Labour shadow immigration minister Bell Ribeiro-Addy said: “Mass deportation by charter flight is the most brutal and inhumane way to remove people from this country.
“It often lacks due process, has little regard for deportees safety, and even less for their right to a family life.
“Both the Home Office and the Prime Minister do not appear to even have the correct information on those due on the flight.
“We are calling on the government to halt all charter flight deportations until it publishes its Windrush lessons learned review.
“After the Windrush scandal, we expect better.
“But this government will stop at nothing to maintain its hostile environment.”
The Home Office previously said that under the UK Borders Act 2007, a deportation order must be made where a foreign national has been convicted of an offence and received a custodial sentence of 12 months or more.
However there are exceptions, including where this would breach a person’s human rights or the UK’s obligations under the Refugee Convention.
A Home Office spokesman previously said: “The planned charter flight to Jamaica is specifically for removing foreign criminals.
“Those detained for removal include people convicted of manslaughter, rape, violent crime and dealing Class-A drugs.”