Tory MPs call on Amber Rudd to help unaccompanied children with family in Britain to leave Calais
Un gruppo di parlamentari del partito conservatore hanno scritto al Ministro degli Interni sollecitandola a garantire che i minori non accompagnati con la famiglia in Gran Bretagna vengano trasferiti dalla Jungle di Calais prima dello smantellamento del sito.
A group of Tory MPs have written to the Home Secretary urging her to ensure unaccompanied children with family in Britain are moved out of the Calais jungle before it is torn down.
Nicky Morgan, the former Education Secretary, is among the signatories calling for the government to "do more" to find a legal and safe way to get unaccompanied children out of the hands of people traffickers.
The MPs have called on Amber Rudd, as a Conservative, to "champion" the role of the family in resolving the refugee crisis. In their letter they write: "We must ensure that it is the authorities and the law that help these children, and not the criminals who would put them in the back of trucks or leave them to take their own chances.
"We know how seriously you take this issue and we want you to know you have our full support to act to ensure these children learn their legal rights to be with their family and get to be with them safely and quickly.
"We can do more to help these children and in doing so we will defeat the traffickers."It comes just days after French President François Hollande vowed to shut down the notorious “Jungle” migrant camp in Calais within weeks by dispatching its residents to dozens of “reception centres” dotted across the country.
Around 9,000 people will be moved from Calais to 140 centres across France in the coming weeks, Mr Hollande said during a visit to one of the new centres in the city of Tours in the Loire Valley.
The MPs add: "Above all, as Conservatives, we must champion the role of the family in resolving this refugee crisis. "Family reunion is the best tool we have for offering a legal and safe way to get unaccompanied children back into the arms of their family and out of the hands of the traffickers."
He will take up the position in October and succeed Sir Julian King, who was recently appointed the UK's EU Commissioner.
More than 4,000 lone children are claiming asylum in Britain, with councils tasked with ensuring they are resettled and cared for.
The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on the French authorities to speed up the processing of lone child asylum seekers in the Calais camp and settle them in new homes or reunite them with their families. The full letter organised by Unicef:
Dear Home Secretary,
Our Prime Minister recently returned from President Obama’s global summit on the refugee crisis having rightly committed to ensure that the UK can tackle this problem at its source. We now must show we can do the same closer to home.
Recently, a 14-year-old boy died in Calais when he fell off a truck while trying to reach the UK. He had a legal right to be with his brother, but having waited for months in wretched conditions for the process to work, he took fate into his own hands with devastating consequences. He had travelled thousands of miles to find his family and his journey ended in tragedy twenty miles from our border.
We are sure you feel as heartbroken as we do about this and the conditions in the camp he was trying to escape. Children are living alone in tents donated by the generous British people, living each day in fear of violence, exposed to criminals and, as we have seen, at risk of losing their lives. With the French authorities planning to dismantle the camp, life is only likely to get harder for these vulnerable children.
It is critical that we in the UK ensure that unaccompanied children with a legal right to be here are kept safe while they wait. This means working with France to ensure children are moved out of the camp before the bulldozers arrive, and into a safe place where they have access to the legal support and social care they need.
We must ensure that it is the authorities and the law that help these children, and not the criminals who would put them in the back of trucks or leave them to take their own chances. We know how seriously you take this issue and we want you to know you have our full support to act to ensure these children learn their legal rights to be with their family and get to be with them safely and quickly. We can do more to help these children and in doing so we will defeat the traffickers.
Above all, as Conservatives, we must champion the role of the family in resolving this refugee crisis. Family reunion is the best tool we have for offering a legal and safe way to get unaccompanied children back into the arms of their family and out of the hands of the traffickers. We must ensure we do all we can to use the love and power of the family to keep children safe.
Yours sincerely,
Tim Loughton MP (Interim Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee)
David Burrowes MP
Nicky Morgan MP
Dr Sarah Wollaston MP
Caroline Ansell MP
Sir David Amess MP
Jason McCartney MP
Flick Drummond MP
James Gray MP
Jeremy Lefroy MP
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