In an embarrassing revelation, Home Office figures show that border officials were either so inept or indifferent as to register 52 grown adults over the age of 30 years old as children over the last decade.
The Freedom of Information request from the Daily Telegraph also revealed that 2021 saw the highest number of alleged asylum seekers claiming to be children, a status which increases the odds of the government granting an asylum request. According to the figures, 1,500 people identified as adult
Many more may have slipped through the system unrecorded due to inadequate vetting.
Between 2012 and 2020, an average of 355 illegals claimed to be minors but were exposed as adults by age tests per year.
The massive upswing in 2021 correlates with the record number of illegal
2022 is on pace to see at least 60,000 land, though some estimates suggest that as many as 100,000 illegals could reach British shores.
Earlier this year, Home Secretary Priti Patel vowed to toughen up checks on migrant arrivals to prevent fraudulent claims of being children. This will supposedly include X-ray exams to determine the age of
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The state of border control was criticised as "inexcusably awful" and a threat to national security last month by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, David Neal, in a report that revealed that border officials are consistently failing to log biometric data such as fingerprints and even names for newly arrived boat
The report went on to say that the age of