[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

The men photographed were said to be interpreters, buts lets focus on the narrative, how would you use this emotive issue to turn public support away from the plight of unaccompanied children in a desperate situation?... Easy, you use the media to question whether those coming are in fact children.
Once there has been a seed of doubt placed it festers in the minds of those so conditioned that they can no longer process what is real and what is manufactured to influence mass perception.

There is nothing and nowhere for these children, and both countries in this human ping pong disaster should hang their heads in shame.

‘Mature’ migrant is not translator, says Home Office
Richard Ford, Home Correspondent
October 20 2016, 12:00pm,
The Times

Concerns were voiced over the age of this newly arrived “child migrant” but the Home Office said some may look older because they had fled war zones
PETER MACDIARMID/LONDON NEWS PICTURES
A mature-looking male pictured arriving in Britain from the Jungle camp in Calais is a teenage migrant and not an adult translator, the Home Office has confirmed.

It had been suggested that he was an interpreter travelling with unaccompanied child asylum seekers.

Officials confirmed this was not the case but refused to comment on his status.

Whitehall sources told The Times that the man was one of a group of child migrants said to be aged 14 to 18 who were brought over from Calais this week.

The picture of him arriving at the Home Office’s Lunar House in Croydon…



My thought processes are fine, what I want it know is why that age group were prioritised over younger children