Can the Minister say a few words on his statement about most asylum seekers being 16 year-olds, at the upper age of the limit? Surely that is not surprising, because a five or a six year-old, unless he had an older sibling to help him, could not make that perilous journey. Also, NGOs on the ground have told me that 17 and 18 year-olds tend to claim to be younger than they are because they do not wish to get caught up in the dysfunctional immigration asylum system in France. I think that that argument works both ways.
Immigration Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Sheehan
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 9 February 2016.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Immigration Bill.
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