Child Migrants?
A piece from a former colleague on how many of the 'child' migrants from Calais came to be here.
I had an interesting conversation recently with someone from
the Home Office regarding the dispersal of the migrant camp at Calais and the
importation to Britain of hundreds of ‘child’ refugees.
Although never admitted, it is obvious that a deal was struck
with the French regarding dispersal of the camp. Britain’s part of the deal was
to take 800 to 1000 of, so called, children from the camp; children who
allegedly had family in this country and were desperate to be reunited with
them.
I am told that Home Office staff were asked to run details
of hundreds of would be migrants against the Home Office criteria to enter the
country as child refugees. Only handfuls of migrants met the criteria as genuine child refugees. They
were asked a number of times to reduce the criteria and run the numbers again
and again until sufficient met the criteria to reach the figure obviously
agreed as part of the deal with France.
Normally, once a person apparently meets the criteria to
enter as refugees, the Home Office carry out various checks to try and verify
the age of the young person. These checks may also highlight some of the risks
that these migrants might pose with regard to criminal convictions or terrorist threats. On this occasion staff were told not to carry
out such checks. They were not allowed to question these migrants about their
age. The only process allowed was to take fingerprints and check to see if the migrant had been previously fingerprinted. If they had and the previous details differed then this could be questioned.
Once transported to Britain the migrants were spoken to further
regarding their family in this country and obviously their future. One
immigration officer, aged in their late thirties, said they were obviously
speaking to a man who was older than them but they could not challenge their
claim to be 17 years old.
Attempts were made to speak to the relatives they claimed to
be coming to join. In many cases no trace of relatives supposedly already in
this country could be found. In some cases phone numbers outside of the UK were
given as contacts. In those cases where they did manage to speak to alleged
relatives, those relatives were not interested in homing or supporting their
long lost cousin, nephew, brother, Etc. Only a handful ended up with their
families.
The vast majority were shipped to reception centres all over the country to be
looked after at the tax payers’ expense. As children, they had to be found
foster homes, schools, colleges Etc. Men in their 20’s and 30’s about whom we
knew very little, in amongst real children. The importation of these, mainly young
men, without carrying out proper checks is a risk to people in this country. A
risk the Government appears to be happy to take with us.
Social Services have subsequently aged assessed many of
these migrant ‘children’ to try and protect real children in this country and
to stop wasting money placing the migrants in schools, foster homes Etc. The
majority of them have been aged assessed as over 18. Despite having arrived in
this country under a complete deception, none of them will be removed. We will simply
encourage others to carry out the same deception in the future.
