"Child refugee"

"Child refugee"  (“Refugee”)
"a blind man on a galloping horse can see that's not a child", "frankly I don't care"
The claim of adult migrants being child refugees has been a media tactic to promote things like humanitarian intervention, open borders and multiculturalism.

According to Wikipedia, nearly half of all refugees are child refugees. Orphaned children are more at risk of exploitation. During the 2015 European refugee crisis, they were used by the mainstream media to make populations support humanitarian intervention. Statistically there was actually a lack of child refugees, but the mainstream media and governments did what they could.

Humanitarian intervention

21 October 2016: a debate on ITVs This Morning regarding whether its right to question the age of a "child refugee"

Alan Kurdi

Alan Kurdi was one of the most potent examples of media manipulation.

Little Amal

Little Amal was a giant puppet that walked from Syria to Britain.

Adult men in British schools

How is there a 30 year old man in our maths class?

In 2018, a "15-year-old boy" from Iran spent six weeks as a Year 11 pupil at Stoke High School in Ipswich. It was up to the pupils to break the story. A similar story happened in Coventry. Worried parents were labelled racist for pointing out that he "looked around 40".

Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai

Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, was a 16 year old Syrian refugee who stabbed to death Thomas Roberts in Bournemouth in March 2022. During the trial, it was revealed he was actually 21 and from Afghanistan, and had previously killed two other migrants in Serbia, before illegally coming to Britain in 2019 on the Cherbourg to Poole ferry and claiming to be 14. Despite being an adult he was placed in a Year 9 class at a local school. He allegedly harassed schoolgirls. In January 2023, he was sentenced to a minimum of 29 years in prison.

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