Caution on child migrants

From: Karl Sheridan, Selby Road, Holme on Spalding Moor.

THE Monmouth MP David Davies is quite right to question the procedures screening children from the ‘Jungle’ in Calais. No doubt the charities involved are only too eager to embrace the chance to prove their worth to their donors in bringing hope to those children who do indeed deserve a new life in the UK.

However I do feel that those charities are somewhat naïve in that they are willing to turn a blind eye to those youths that, far from being just ‘children’, are, in fact, considerably older, and unscrupulous in their determination to enter the UK.

These are just the sort of migrants that we don’t want – the sort who have grown used to stealing, who have lied and cheated to gain their way to what they see as Utopia: a place where they will be entitled to free health care, benefits and housing.

No one with any decency would begrudge genuine and innocent children a chance to make a new life here in the UK, but we also need to be aware that very many of those in the ‘Jungle’ have dismissed the chance of a new life in Europe, and that the UK is their goal.

From: Terry Palmer, South Lea Avenue, Hoyland, Barnsley.

QUESTIONS have been raised about the ages of refugee children who were brought to the UK this week from the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais with calls for dental checks ruled out.

We then have Lib Dem leader Tim Farron telling us it doesn’t matter whether they are children or not and we have no right to check them out. These are the same people that scuttle back under their stones when atrocities happen without a whimper. We should beware of people like Farron and his ilk and we should be very, very afraid because it’s people like him that are the real “enemy within”.

From: Barry Tighe, Woodford Green.

HELPFUL hints for modern times. To find out if child refugees are over the age of eighteen, send them to the pub and let the landlord decide.