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THE Tories cruel Borders Bill will have a “massively detrimental” impact on child trafficking victims, putting them further at risk of criminal exploitation, leading charities have warned.
More children are likely to go unidentified, unprotected and punished under contentious changes to modern day slavery laws in the Nationality and Borders Bill, the open letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel and Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi warns.
The letter, signed by eight leading children’s charities including the Children’s Society, comes ahead of the return of the Bill to the Commons tomorrow.
Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum