Think Trump treats child migrants badly? Time to look closer to home

Grace Benton, Benjamin Morgan and Rachel Rosen work with NELMA (North East London Migrant Action). They have some uncomfortable truths to share

Images of children held in cages on the Mexico-US border, crying for parents detained or deported by American border police, have been met with outrage over the past few weeks. Amnesty International called the forcible separation of over 2,000 children from their parents “nothing short of torture”. Watching the news and social media, you’d be forgiven for thinking such callous treatment of child migrants could only happen in Trump’s America. But the UK’s record on similar issues is little short of scandalous. Trump’s policy on the Mexico border employs the same rhetoric of deterrence, and the same casual scapegoating, that has powered Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’, with the UK too making migrant children pay the price of populist opportunism. The ongoing plight of the migrant children in Calais, increasingly forgotten by a…

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