Comment: 'Yorkshire Evening Post' reports that every year 2'000 children and young people are arrested and imprisoned in detention centres in Britain because their parents are asylum seekers. The children are usually seized during dawn raids with their parents and put in the centres. Although the unaccompanied minors are safe from deportation, the others are still living in fear of immigration officers coming and dragging them out of their beds, like dangerous criminals. The article reports that it happened that their parents commited suicide in prison in order to prevent their children from sending back to their homeland. Actually, the immigration officers can't deport them unless one parent or relative accompanies them.

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