At the weekend, news broke of dozens of kidnapped asylum-seeking children taken by gangs from a hotel in Brighton on the south coast of England run by the Home Office.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/26/letter-from-london-i-got-the-news-today/

Leading charities have called for an independent inquiry into how more than 200 asylum-seeking children have gone “missing” from Home Office hotels, describing the situation as “a child protection scandal”.

Source: https://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/national/23276862.charities-write-pm-urging-action-200-missing-child-refugees/?ref=rss

More lone asylum-seeking children were being cared for by councils in the Black Country this year, new figures show.

Source: https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/sandwell/2023/11/25/black-country-looking-after-more-lone-asylum-seeking-children/

Peter Kyle MP claimed that Mr Gullis had said 200 missing asylum-seeking children ‘shouldn’t have come here illegally’

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-mp-pmqs-jonathan-gullis-asylum-b2269698.html

So they turn up and they can access English lessons, a clothing bank, a foodbank, a toiletries bank, classes for parents and toddler groups, a birth partner project for asylum-seeking women who might be birthing on their own."

Source: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/mouldy-cold-church-being-transformed-28160965

The ATD term refers to “Alternatives to Detention” and it was being used by Mayorkas to dodge the federal law that requires him to detain asylum-seeking migrants until their requests are decided.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/border/2023/05/12/judge-blocks-bidens-catch-and-release-policy-as-title-42-is-lifted/