First it was blankets, now they hide behind screens
A HUGE screen was put up outside a British immigration centre yesterday in an attempt to prevent anyone seeing the latest arrival of child migrants.
It came a day after migrants who appeared older than typical teenagers used Home Office blankets to hide their faces.
A scaffolding company received a frantic call from the Home Office yesterday morning asking for a 15ft-high barrier to be erected. Home Office security guards patrolled outside the centre in Croydon, South London, as the fifth group arrived.
Charity workers privately admitted the screen was ‘farcical’ because many who arrived yesterday had posed for pictures before they left France.
Ironically, the latest batch of more than 20 refugees appeared to be the youngest so far.
The Home Office declined to comment on the screen, which is understood to have cost taxpayers up to £2,000.