UK’s legislation on blocking illegal migration is ‘weak and toothless’, Migrant Watch chief warns

The UK’s asylum system has been branded “disgraceful” by Migration Watch UK Chairman Alp Mehmet after the parents of two migrant children who crossed the Channel alone attempted to claim asylum in Britain.

A family of Kurdish Turks were separated after travelling to Calais to board a small boat, where the two children aged six and nine remained on the dinghy to the UK.