UK to deport child asylum seekers to Afghanistan

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/07/child-asylum-seekers-uk-afghanistan

The Uk Border Agency is planning £4m for "reintegration centre" in Afghanistan so that failed Afghan child asylum seekers can be returned home.

An organisation is being sought to run the centre in the capital, Kabul, which would aim to help their resettlement.
Until now, the UK has had a policy of not returning children under 18 to Afganistan unless they are accompanied by their families. So, what they want to do now is to let children under 18 go back alone to a country where there is war and which is not safe for them and there is a chance that they could not be reunited again with their family which means that they would be all alone in a country where they have nothing left.This move is part of a Europe-Wide plan to increase the number of people returned to Afghanistan. However, the refugee council said there were "serious questions" about how the UK plan would work, because there had been little said about how these children would be kept safe.


I think that the UK should consider closing his borders instead of letting everyone in and than bringing everyone back again. There are a lot of people who flee to the UK for economical reasons, hoping to find a better life there. It is true that if all the children stay in the Uk, it means that there should be more help provided for them and this cannot always be the case. However, I do think it is irresponsable to let children go back alone to a country where there is war.