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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Eleni Courea and Rajeev Syal

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Asylum changes seek to use children as a weapon says labour peer - Caught on Camera

People in orange life vests in an inflatable vessel with a larger vessel in the background
Ministers argue that the current system incentivises asylum seekers to subject their children to dangerous Channel crossings. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Media

The home secretary is seeking “to use children as a weapon” in her changes to the asylum system, a veteran Labour peer who came to Britain as a child refugee has said.

Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK aged six in 1939 fleeing the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, described Shabana Mahmood’s proposals as “a shabby thing”.

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