I rather like Katie Hopkins

[d000hg]

Why have they been allowed to reach Calais?

How does answering that help us with the ones who have? Two separate problems, neither should be ignored at the expense of the other surely.

[d000hg]

if we are behaving that stupidly with a subset of them then we probably are doing the rest wrong.

That is a fair point "Hands up who is a child" is not the most fool-proof approach.

[DodgyAgent]

How does answering that help us with the ones who have? Two separate problems, neither should be ignored at the expense of the other surely.

I am not sure what you mean. I do think that we have to be tough and start sending these people back

[minestrone]

Also this is about the stupidest argument. According to the BBC:
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We have 300k immigrants a year or something of that order, and we're complaining about a subset of 3 dozen of them, living in the awful conditions of the Jungle, being a bit old?

If it were thousands I can understand, but this is less than arrive in each toy inflatable boat.

There has been numerous rapes committed by Syrian 'children' in the child care system where they will be going. How would you like to have a daughter in school with a bunch of 20 year olds from a repressive sexual culture?

There are 400 of these 'children' and now we are taking them in there will be hundreds more turning up for the queue.

[DodgyAgent]

There has been numerous rapes committed by Syrian 'children' in the child care system where they will be going. How would you like to have a daughter in school with a bunch of 20 year olds from a repressive sexual culture?

There are 400 of these 'children' and now we are taking them in there will be hundreds more turning up for the queue.

The Calais Jungle 'child refugee' conundrum | Coffee House


Many – especially if French and right-wing – or British and left-wing – insist: Britain has a moral obligation to take in not only those unaccompanied children but everyone else in the Jungle as well – up to 10,000 in total – just because they want to come to Britain.

Britain does not. It has no moral – let alone legal – obligation even to take in unaccompanied children without British links from the Jungle let alone adult migrants, even if real refugees. France does.

I agree with the Calais migrants. France is the pits: not much work and no automatic welfare (once granted refugee status); diabolical restaurant food; and the populace permanently pissed off. But France is supposed to be a civilised country nevertheless and is not some war-torn hell-hole or dictatorship. And France has allowed the Jungle to exist.

Britain’s only obligation is to those unaccompanied children with a British family connection who have applied for asylum in Britain. If they are children. Yet in the year to September 2015, two-thirds of child asylum seekers in Britain whose age was disputed by officials – according to latest Home Office figures – were found to be adults.

The British Dental Association has suggested that verifying the ages of migrant children by their teeth would be ‘unethical’. But as Emma Louise Ashord, 37, a dental nurse, had told me in the Dover Priory pub opposite Dover station the night before I arrived in Calais, ‘We get loads of them in the surgery who say they’re 16 but they’re more like 30. They’ve all got wisdom teeth.’

So if looking at the faces is not enough, just check the teeth, which the Home Office won’t because it is ‘intrusive’. How many more would have been rumbled if it had?

[minestrone]

The BDA's excuse that you should not be x-raying without a valid health reason I complete bulltulip.

The lot of them will quite happily file your teeth off for cosmetic purposes.

[BrilloPad]

I like Katie Hopkins.

And carved carefully you can get 3 meals out of her.

[DodgyAgent]

I like Katie Hopkins.

And carved carefully you can get 3 meals out of her.

[Flashman]

Saying incredibly racist, xenophobic and bigoted things is hardly difficult.

Young illegal immigrants to face teeth x-ray test for real age | Daily Mail Online

Back in 2007 the then immigration minister Liam Byrne said that dental checks had to be considered to prevent abuse of the system:

“If it is true that a dental x-ray is able to establish within a more precise range an individuals’ age than any other form of determination then I think we have really got to look very hard at that evidence. We cannot have adults in the children’s system. Adults in the children’s system, I believe, pose a serious threat to our obligation to protect children effectively.”

[DodgyAgent]

Young illegal immigrants to face teeth x-ray test for real age | Daily Mail Online

Do what Isis does and cut the head off and count the rings