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Originally Posted by nomadking
If they are not yet discovered then they are not in any figures.
Still doesn't address the FACT that if as illegals they have no money or accommodation, that they choose to stay that way rather than, get some income and housing from claiming asylum.
Claiming to be under 18 is a well known scam as they are put into foster care and then have a tendency to disappear. Even those that stay in foster care have a cushy number.
So stressed and yet they still made it all this way. 
Their parents AND the French abandoned them. |
So, we abandon them too? Right?
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Originally Posted by Osem
Delaying their applications for asylum is a good tactic - they can disappear and work for as long as it takes for them to be caught and then commence the protracted asylum process. The longer they can stay here the less likely it is that they'll ever be returned...
And as for the 'record amounts of unaccompanied minors' getting through the tunnel - I wonder how many are simply claiming to be minors. As anyone who's ever bothered to watch any of the immigration related documentaries will know, that's a standard technique for misleading the authorities too and when someone makes such a claim it has to be taken seriously even if the person appears to be older than they're claiming.
We really do have to stop making excuses for people who are in a perfectly safe country and could/should claim asylum there. The conditions they're currently suffering are of their own making and as a result of their own choices and I fail to see why we should treat them with more sympathy than the genuine refugees stuck in tents in places like Turkey. The only danger the migrants in Calais are in is the danger the cause to themselves and others but the reality is that they know the French system is a lot tougher to abuse than ours and that's the only reason they want to come here. I'm sorry but nowhere in the relevant law does it give illegal migrants the right to choose where they want to live or claim asylum.
Does anyone really believe that anyone stuck in Calais who's a couple of years (maybe even more) over 16, for example, is really going to admit it when they get here, knowing how much harder that will make the process they'll be going through? They're suddenly going to abide by the rules they've been ignoring for so long? Soooo much easier to say you're a minor and to hell with it. There's no punishment for making any such false claim so you have nothing to lose and a great deal to gain. Wake up and smell the coffee folks...
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What a load of twaddle, do you actually believe the words, no sorry not words, complete and utter crap you're spouting?
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Seems to pretty much sum some people up on this thread.