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NOW SMUGGLED CHILDREN CAN STAY HERE
February 9, 2011
Smuggled children are winning asylum status because the Government has ended biometric tests for those aged five and under.
The softly-softly treatment is a boon to people traffickers and comes in spite of Government pledges to get tough on immigration.
In the past, tests have found the same children were repeatedly being taken to asylum centre’s under different names with different adults.
Investigators suspected they were being used to help women get housing and other benefits. Last week a Somali woman went to the asylum centre in Croydon, London, with an 18-month-old boy, claiming she had been given him by a stranger she had met in the capital.
She said the man had called to arrange a meeting. He told her the boy was her sister’s in Africa, but the mother was unable to look after him so he had been smuggled into Britain.
Because of the new guidelines, it was decided not to carry out biometric tests. He will probably be allowed to remain in the UK for three years and then admitted into the school system. The next stop for the woman, who will probably be allowed to keep him, will be the benefits office.
A source said: “These stories are becoming more common. All the child has to do is put his hand on a machine, which reads the fingerprints. It takes a few seconds and is not at all painful.
“The children are too young to speak, so they cannot be questioned. It is a very clever way of legitimising smuggled children and getting them into the benefits system.” Chris Beddoe, of the child welfare charity ECPAT UK, said he opposed tests for under-fives, partly because children cannot give their consent.
However, he added: “This worrying case raises a whole series of questions about the child’s welfare and child protection issues. There needs to be a full police investigation.” There was no response from the UK Border Agency.
I believe that all these children must be tested and in fact all the adults too, because if they are fiddling the system with kids then they will be doing so as adults.
I keep asking how difficult can it be to secure an island? Surely it cannot be that hard.
Tom Linden (NF Press and Publicity)
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