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CAMPAIGNERS gathered yesterday to welcome the paltry number of child refugees granted leave to travel to Britain from the Calais Jungle.
The welcome party came amid Tory bluster about the refugees lying about their age.
A bus with 21 refugees on board was due to arrive at the Home Office building in Croydon, south London, yesterday, with crowds of supporters brandishing balloons and banners waiting to greet them.
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
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
