Opinion: In My View - Children in detention
Julie Morgan, MP for Cardiff North
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
I would like children in the UK immigration system to be treated as children. There seems to be a tendency to treat children as short adults and to deny them access to aspects of childhood that the rest of us take for granted. Some find it hard to access education, others have few opportunities to play. Whatever the merits of their parents' case, it is unfair to treat children in this manner.
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