Syrian refugee children allowed into Britain under a new policy announced by David Cameron today will be deported when they reach the age of 18, Paddy Ashdown has said.
The Prime Minister said today that the UK will allow up to 20,000 refugees from camps on the Syrian border to enter the UK until the end of the current Government in 2020.
Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown took to Twitter today to say that the new measures apparently came with a caveat.
‘Minister in the Lords just confirmed refugee orphans and children brought in under Cameron’s scheme will be deported at age 18,’ he wrote.
Speaking to the House of Commons earlier, David Cameron said that Britain would ‘show the world that this country is a country of extraordinary compassion’ and that ‘it is right that we should do much more.’
However Mr Ashdown’s apparent revelation shows another side to those words. One Twitter user wrote that ‘aside from the ethics’ it made ‘no economic sense’ to send 18-year-olds educated by the state back to Syria.
Another said deporting 18-year-olds was ‘inhumane’. One user backed the policy, and said it was ‘brilliant’.
‘All refugees should be returned to their homelands when it is safe to do so,’ they wrote.
‘A child who grows up in Britain IS HOME,’ another replied.
The Prime Minister said today that the UK will allow up to 20,000 refugees from camps on the Syrian border to enter the UK until the end of the current Government in 2020.
Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown took to Twitter today to say that the new measures apparently came with a caveat.
‘Minister in the Lords just confirmed refugee orphans and children brought in under Cameron’s scheme will be deported at age 18,’ he wrote.
Speaking to the House of Commons earlier, David Cameron said that Britain would ‘show the world that this country is a country of extraordinary compassion’ and that ‘it is right that we should do much more.’
However Mr Ashdown’s apparent revelation shows another side to those words. One Twitter user wrote that ‘aside from the ethics’ it made ‘no economic sense’ to send 18-year-olds educated by the state back to Syria.
Another said deporting 18-year-olds was ‘inhumane’. One user backed the policy, and said it was ‘brilliant’.
‘All refugees should be returned to their homelands when it is safe to do so,’ they wrote.
‘A child who grows up in Britain IS HOME,’ another replied.
Metro UK
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