Current Events > UK gov't altering birth dates to detain child asylum seekers like adults

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/27/child-asylum-seekers-detained-as-adults-after-uk-home-office-alters-birth-dates

The Home Office is routinely changing the dates of birth of unaccompanied child asylum seekers to classify them as adults, according to experts who say the practice is now happening on a horrifying scale.

As a result, many children are being wrongly sent to the notorious Home Office site at Manston in Kent, the experts warn, and detained in unsafe conditions for up to several weeks.

The Refugee Council said interviews with 16 children released from Manston revealed that even in the cases of some boys who had identity documents stating they were children, the Home Office changed their dates of birth to make them over 18.

One of the children, interviewed at a hotel in London last week, said they had been attacked by adults in Manston, and others described fights and the police being called.

Sonia Lambert, who works for the Refugee Council, described boys giving their ages as 15 to 17, but Home Office staff not accepting their stated ages. One had his birth date altered by one year, putting him over the dividing line of 18. I cried so much but they still didnt change it back, said an Afghan boy.

Three of them showed images of ID documents or passports on their phones to officials from the Refugee Councils age-dispute project, which had been either ignored or discounted by the Home Office. Some of the boys said they could not understand why they had been given a new age despite their protests.

Disgusting but not surprising why they'd do it to these kids :(

Legitimately evil.

How long has this been going on

TomClark posted...

Legitimately evil.

Yup.

Wouldn't surprise me if it comes out this is one of the 'kinder' evils our government had committed.

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These people have been working for Priti Patel and Suella Braverman. They're more likely to be promoted for this.

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The PM is likely to promote them before firing them sadly. The whole government is currently openly rotten and evil, despite several being children of immigrants. Some of who wouldn't meet the criteria they demand of immigrants now.

Wow that's bad. I wonder is it a laziness thing? Easier to take care of "adults" than teenagers?

Dreepapult posted...

Wow that's bad. I wonder is it a laziness thing? Easier to take care of "adults" than teenagers?

No. It's a "fuck the immigrant scum, treat them like dirt and abuse them as much as possible to deter them from coming here" along with "ensure the only way they can get asylum is crossing the channel and then act baffled when they do that"

After Windrush I find it hard to believe, but then equally...

Britons hate asylum seekers and immigrants.

This was basically one of the main features of Brexit that they voted in favor of three times. EU can't tell them not to do this now.

Fascist