Demonstrators protest outside the Home Office in London
HUNDREDS of people are expected to gather outside the Home Office in London on Thursday to protest at ministers’ “institutional neglect” of unaccompanied child asylum-seekers.
The demonstration, due at 6pm, has been organised by the Action Against Detention and Deportation (AADD) coalition to demand that the government takes steps in response to revelations that 200 children have gone missing from Home Office hotels in the past 18 months.
Reports say that many have been abducted by trafficking gangs.
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
