The "Children" of Calais

People commit fraud.  This is not surprising or unusual.  In order for fraud to be successful it must be plausible.  Totally implausible efforts to deceive are something beyond fraud.  This is the case with the child refugee fraud being perpetrated in Europe.  There is something pathological about it.  In an effort to empty the refugee camp in Calais (the jungle) the British are accepting “child refugees.”  The idea that many of these refugees are children requires a certain amount of mental imbalance.

A 16-year-old from Ethiopia cries while he awaits registration at a processing in the makeshift refugee camp near Calais.

Rosie a “foster mother” in Britain was “horrified” to learn that her 12-year-old Afghan refugee orphan, Jamal, was a 21-year-old jahidi.  Rosie at first became suspicious of his facial hair.  Yet she allowed him to share a room with three children aged between 12 and 14.  Jamal was subsequently arrested for assault.  It was later revealed that he had Taliban and child abuse material on his phone.  A dental check found his age to actually be around 21. Rosie complained, “It’s ridiculous how everybody else could see it but not the social workers.”  A bus driver threw Jamal off a bus because he looked too old for a child ticket. Perhaps the driver should be hired by the immigration service.  Jamal’s parting words to Rosie were, “'I’ll kill you and I know where your children are.” 

The Government claims these refugees are aged 14 to 17.  They are part of a fast-track system to move youngsters from the French migrant camp.  Officials insist the migrants have undergone rigorous interviews and document checks to establish they are aged under 18.  After seeing photos of these “children,” Conservative MP David Davies wrote, “These don't look like 'children' to me. I hope British hospitality is not being abused.”  The article states, “A Home Office spokesman admitted that routine medical tests, such as checking dental records, have not been carried out because it could be 'intrusive'.”  MP Davies remains hopeful.

Another couple with “years of experience fostering refugees” were shocked to find their children were adults.  Sarah and Giles, using false names for fear of reprisals, reported that migrant children who claim to be 15 are actually in their mid-twenties.  They claim one “child” reportedly told them,  “You English are so stupid – I’m in my twenties.”  They were told to take in a 15-year-old boy from Albania.  An elderly doctor told the foster couple: “If that lad is 14, I am 23.”  They claimed, “He lived with us for two years and went to school as a 15 and 16-year-old.”  Knowing that this was a fraudulent scheme, Sarah and Giles continued to play their part in it.

Sarah claimed they were usually notified at night by a social worker who informed them that the police had stopped a truck of migrants and one had claimed to be under 18. The social worker would ask them it they could take him in.  This couple have fostered dozens of asylum seeker children.  They say they were shocked when many turned out to be adults.  They claimed that social services had “no interest” in this trend.  According to this article some of these “children” from migrant camps in Calais appear to be up to 38 years old.  The article continues, “New Home Office figures show more than two-thirds of refugees who had their ages assessed were found to be adults despite claiming to be children.”  It claims of the 933 refugees who claimed to be children, 636 (68 per cent) were deemed to be over 18.   

In contrast to Britain, Denmark relies on medical methods of evaluating refugee ages.  By X-raying asylum-seekers' teeth and knuckles, Danish doctors have concluded that 74 percent of young men in the "suspicious" group (or around 600 individuals) were actually adults. This is in stark contrast to theirs Scandinavian neighbor, Sweden.

Sweden, the rape capital of the West, has a very “progressive” method of determining age.  According to Ingrid Carlqvist writing for the Gatestone Institute, “administrators at the Immigration Service had all been ordered to ‘accept the claim that an applicant is a child, if he does not look as if he is over 40.’”  People who disagree with this method of determining age are in danger of being labeled 'heartless' or 'xenophobic.'

Ireland, as every European nation, is dealing with the problem of adult refugees claiming to be children.  The article describing this situation reports, “speculation in some media outlets that some of the young men may be over 18.”  Fred McBride, the head of Ireland’s child and family agency and an apparent expert on aging, stated, “Some of them are not children, they’re actually adults pretending to be children.”  McBride explained, “some will flee immediately on landing at the port or airport.”   In other words the are allowed to flee and blend into the alien community.