Unaccompanied Child Refugees

100 ? Big deal ! Chester is resettling 20,000 by 2020. Young adults and children.

EllenVannin that just cannot in a million years be true

Well I hope that they really are children! Without proper documentation it's quite possible that many will actually be adults. I am speaking from experience by the way.

Perhaps some facts would be helpful before discussing further - 20,000 - come on. Young adults and children?

Do you have direct experience Lois? That sounds interesting.

EllenVannin your figures just cannot be true really

I think it is important to note that in many countries dates of birth are just not noted as assiduously as in the UK. So a young person may truthfully not know if s/he is 17, 18 or 19. Remember that it is important to be under 18 to be a child. So, how do we tell? We aren't allowed to carry out dental checks for example so it's quite possible that person is actually over 18. I am not allowed to give you examples ( I'm sure you understand why), but I have had serious doubts that the person in question is actually who they say they are. For example , if they speak a language that is common over several countries how do you know that they come from a country that is at war and not from a neighbouring country that has no issues? It is easy under those circumstances for a person to make a false claim. I won't say more but sometimes a bit of cynicism is a good thing.

The downside is when families in poor countries send their kids off to Europe with people smugglers and they may not be safe at all.
The families do it believing they are giving their children a better start in life.

I saw a documentary, forget which one, about a year ago about this. That is why there are so many unaccompanied children.

Chester is not resettling 20000 of any age

Suziewoozie, yes. The idea being that a quota of 20,000 would be received from 2014 to 2020. Which is till more than 100 a go.

No EllenVannin it’s just not true. You said Chester were resettling 20,000 by 2020 - it just is not true.

The right hand doesn't know what the left hand does so far as those who are South of Watford go. This is exactly what I was trying to explain about the North and South divide.

Nobody has a clue except us in the NW/NE and North in general. Southerners need to remove their rose-coloured specs ! Including the useless politicians in Westminster too.

20,000 between 2014 and 2020 equates to approx. 64 per week!

Liverpool has probably taken in more refugees than any other area in the country------but no extra funding to back them up. Why do you think we're known as the poor relations of this country ? It's criminal !

Could you please give us a link or reference to substantiate your claim EllanVannin?

Ellenvannin just found this Councillors have agreed that up to 20 refugee families will be resettled in the borough over a five-year period, as part of a wider commitment for the Cheshire sub-region as a whole The 20,000 figure is for the UK as a whole I believe.

In 2015 the Government pledged to take in 20, 000 refugees from 2015-2020. We have taken in 16,000 so far and the Home Secretary has pledged 5,000 more next year. This is for the whole country not Chester. I’m not saying they are distributed equally or fairly across the country but there is no way Chester has pledged to 20, 000

@lois, how do you confuse a10 yr old from an adult?!

I think we need to get the wording right here.

These are not migrants children ( or otherwise as others have pointed out), but illegal immigrants, sent by scheming parents in the hope that European countries (and specifically us of course) will take them in.

Then of course once the 'children' are in, the parents would feel that they would have a good chance of getting in here too.

And so it goes on with our country getting more and more overcrowded year after year.

Thanks GillT57. In my area we only take families as well.

If you read my post, I have said that often we are talking about people who claim to be 16 or 17 , which makes them children for the purposes of being unaccompanied minors. They may well be over 18 , both for the reasons I have given and also because some may be untruthful. I think you have ,however, raised the point that when we think about unaccompanied children most of us think that we are talking about very young children who should not be abandoned. A lot of the time the children are really teens/young adults.

GillT57 Sajid Javid had pledged another 10,000 entries into the UK if he'd been voted as PM-----which means to me that his promise will remain whoever gets in, so the figures still don't ring true.

Yes, I beg your pardon on the 20,000 in Chester as it is the UK as a whole. Neverthless, they have a migration programme which allows Syrian displacements to settle in the area. Does such a programme exist anywhere else ?

I’m sorry Lois, From the time I open the page until the time I got around to writing my comment your second comment hadn’t popped up. So I do understand your point better. However, do you feel that people are deliberately lying about their age or do they genuinely not know?

It doesn't alter the fact that we in Wirral and Merseyside have taken the most refugees !