Heaven Crawley, a lecturer at the University of Wales, wrote the reportfor the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association. She said: "There isevidence that children subject to immigration control are treated asmigrants first, and their rights as children are unidentified orignored."
It coincided with the publication of a House of Lords European Unioncommittee report calling for increased transparency on the detention ofchildren. But a spokeswoman for Save the Children called for thedetention of children to stop completely.
- www.ilpa.org.uk.
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