Friday, January 06, 2006

Children traumatised by asylum raids, says watchdog / Times Online, 5 Jan 2006

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-1970427,00.html
Alexandra Frean
"THE Government has been severely criticised by its own watchdog for allowing children to be 'snatched' from their homes by immigration officials. Al Aynsley-Green, England's first Children's Commissioner, said that it was outrageous in a civilised society that the children of asylum-seekers were being rounded up for deportation with no warning and no attempt to explain to them what was happening. "