We welcome the UK-France agreement, announced today, to speed-up family reunion for refugees in Calais with family in Britain.
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We’re proud to announce that it is going to provide legal assistance within the centre and ensure that minors eligible for family reunification are aware of their rights to join their relatives in the UK.
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“riot police routinely use pepper spray on child and adult migrants while they are sleeping or in other circumstances in which they pose no threat; regularly spray or confiscate sleeping bags, blankets, and clothing; and sometimes use pepper spray on migrants’ food and water.”
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Children should not be required to live in these awful conditions at the hands of people smugglers; I hope for Daniel, this will soon be a distant memory.
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Mohammed died in Oxfordshire in April 2015 when the lorry he had stowed away in ran him over. Having travelled from Iraq, the Kurdish teenager spent three months in the camps in Dunkirk before eventually smuggling himself to the UK under the wheel arches of the lorry. He was trying to reach his uncle, Shamal Silah in Manchester.
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These boys have waited for months in reception centres in France with no explanation regarding the manner in which the family reunion decisions in their cases had been reached or how to initiate the procedure to review the decision.
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“Children in France are getting increasingly desperate as they hear little from officials, and fill the void with rumours and speculation. With children already absconding from the CAOs it is vital that the Home Office speeds up the rate of transfers to the UK.”
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Over 1600 children from the Calais camp remain in France in temporary accommodation. Many have family here, hundreds more are eligible for sanctuary in the UK through the Dubs legislation.
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