Come on now, these are just teens who claim to be under a certain age, but the Home Office believes they are probably lying and older.
They’ve already made an incredibly dangerous journey on their own, risking their lives. At worst, a genuine 15- or 16-year-old might then spend some time in a relatively safe detention centre before being returned to France, a safe country.
The alternative would be to treat anyone who claims to be a child as a child. Which would mean adult males living with actual children, going to actual schools…and would also incentive young people to make the dangerous crossing…
erbr on
I can imagine a guy looking like in it’s 30s saying that he’s 12
Fingertoes1905 on
This is just the latest tactic to stop them being deported
[deleted] on
[removed]
Nukes-For-Nimbys on
The article doesn’t even pretend to be in good faith. The whole thing is recycling the words of NGO campaiging for all these guys to be let in.
Determination of age is hard, though if someone claims to be just under 18 the pragmatic thing is to hold the separately until they are an adult.
BuzzAllWin on
Is this about the soft play in catford leisure centre again?
Leave A Reply
Du musst angemeldet sein, um einen Kommentar abzugeben.
6 Kommentare
Come on now, these are just teens who claim to be under a certain age, but the Home Office believes they are probably lying and older.
They’ve already made an incredibly dangerous journey on their own, risking their lives. At worst, a genuine 15- or 16-year-old might then spend some time in a relatively safe detention centre before being returned to France, a safe country.
The alternative would be to treat anyone who claims to be a child as a child. Which would mean adult males living with actual children, going to actual schools…and would also incentive young people to make the dangerous crossing…
I can imagine a guy looking like in it’s 30s saying that he’s 12
This is just the latest tactic to stop them being deported
[removed]
The article doesn’t even pretend to be in good faith. The whole thing is recycling the words of NGO campaiging for all these guys to be let in.
Determination of age is hard, though if someone claims to be just under 18 the pragmatic thing is to hold the separately until they are an adult.
Is this about the soft play in catford leisure centre again?