Deporting unaccompanied child migrants is immoral - Melanie McFadyean

The level of cynicism involved in the new government's proposal to send unaccompanied asylum-seeking children back to Afghanistan leaves me almost lost for words. They are starting by sending kids back to Afghanistan because more kids arrive here than from other countries. But maybe it's because it begins with A and eventually they'll get to Z and then all the children will be sent back.

UK politicians sent UK troops into Afghanistan and are therefore responsible for the horror that is life in that country. And yet they sit in Whitehall or Westminster chewing their pencils and working out ways to cuts costs that will be popular with the electorate. Ah yes, you can hear them say, other European countries such as Norway, Sweden and Denmark plan to send unaccompanied children back to Afghanistan and so can we. How do they sleep at night? Deporting unaccompanied child migrants is immoral

UK to deport child asylum seekers to Afghanistan