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French Action Urged Over Calais Asylum-Seeker Children

Anne Longfield, England's children's commissioner, has asked the French government to help lone children in Calais's refugee camp reach relatives in the UK. She claims the French are not properly protecting lone...

by PILP

Anne Longfield, England's children's commissioner, has asked the French government to help lone children in Calais's refugee camp reach relatives in the UK. She claims the French are not properly protecting lone children at the camp, saying 129 have gone missing. The children, some as young as 10, have fled fighting in Syria and elsewhere. She has written to French authorities to ask them to speed up the asylum claims of 150 children who may be eligible to travel to the UK. The French government has yet to comment on Longfield's letter.

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