Britain has seen a record number of adult migrants claiming to be child asylum seekers this year, and authorities have uncovered more than 1,300 cases of fraud.
One report found that at least 1,317 immigrants falsely claimed to be minors from the beginning of this year to the end of June, the highest number on record and the highest number reported in 2017, 2018 and 2019. This is more than all cases combined. report from solar.
The top-selling British newspaper reported that this year, 283 adults from Afghanistan, 282 from Sudan, 236 from Vietnam and 140 from Eritrea claimed to be child asylum seekers.
This practice is often used by illegal immigrants to increase their chances of being granted the right to remain in the UK, as children are often given special leeway when asylum decisions are being made.
Immigration Minister Angela Eagle last week claimed that one in five illegal boat migrants who cross the English Channel from France and arrive on British shores are currently children, with many of them receiving “unfavorable conditions”. admitted to lying in order to obtain
Dame Angela speaking at the Labor Party Conference in Liverpool said every daily mail: “There are problems with accurately identifying people who are children…about 20 per cent of the people we encounter on boats at the moment claim to be children. Not all of them are. ”
“And clearly the signal went out that if you claimed you were a child you would get more favorable terms…When you put an adult into a system meant for children, there are some safeguarding issues. . Children in an adult system, we have to sort it out.”
Immigration authorities' failure to bust immigration scammers posing as children has had deadly consequences.
For example, convicted Afghan murderer Rawanjeen Abdulrahimzai was allowed to remain in the UK despite entering the country illegally because he claimed to be a 14-year-old orphan when he was actually 18. was given.
Abdulrahimzai was placed in foster care and sent to school, where he began sexually abusing the girls. Afghans later become illegal stabbed to death Thomas Roberts aims to become a Marine in 2022.
Parsons Green terrorist Ahmed Hassan, also an Iraqi immigrant who detonated a bomb on the London Underground in 2017, injuring 23 people. Found The judge ruled that she had posed as a child when entering the UK “in order to obtain the special privileges afforded to children entering the UK”.
In another notable example, an immigrant 38 years old On arrival in the UK, he tried to claim he was a child asylum seeker. Open borders activists initially tried to claim that he was acting as a language interpreter for other migrants, but this was also later proven to be false.
The previous Conservative government had plans to tighten checks on migrants, including allowing the use of X-rays and dental tests to determine their real age, to prevent migrants from misleading authorities.
However, it is unclear whether the New Left Labor government will implement the plan. Despite Starmer's promise to crack down on illegal immigration, more than 10,000 foreigners have arrived in the UK in small boats since he came to power in July, taking the annual total to more than 25,000. It became.
