In the light of these findings, it is not hard to see why the Government has introduced the Asylum and Immigration Bill currently passing through Parliament - a Bill recently slated as "objectionable" by the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights.
The Bill has already raised controversy where children are concerned.
Under its proposals, failed asylum seekers with dependent children will no longer be eligible for support - a move that could, in theory, result in the local authority taking the children into care.
This may prove an incentive for families to leave the UK, as the Government clearly intends. Some parents, though, may reach the agonising conclusion that their children will be better off in care; others may simply go underground, with all the dangers that entails.
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