division_name: Immigration Bill &#8212; Unaccompanied Refugee Children: Relocation and Support
motion: <p class="indent" pid="d1198.5/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We&#8217;ll develop a community sponsorship scheme, like those in Canada and Australia, to allow individuals, charities, faith groups, churches and businesses to support refugees directly.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1207.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;As the Jewish community celebrates the&#8230;Passover, we remember not only our own journey to freedom, but all those who are not free.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1208.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;is an opportunity for us to live up to the best of our tradition in Britain of reaching out a hand to help the most vulnerable&#8221;?</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1212.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1212.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">Their babies at their backs, with their poor luggage,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1212.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">Plodding to th&#8217; ports and coasts for transportation&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1212.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to France or Flanders,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1212.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">To any German province, Spain or Portugal&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1212.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a nation of such barbarous temper&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1218.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a lack of adequate sanitation facilities which means that women and children have to share toilets with men or are forced to defecate in the open. . . Unaccompanied minors, once in the hands of the authorities, are sometimes placed in detention with adults, again exposing them to risks of sexual and physical harassment. . . Children interviewed recounted stories of war and death and described the terrifying journey crossing the sea to Greece. Parents reported symptoms like bedwetting, nightmares, fear and extreme attachment. Most of the children had been out of school for years and have a distorted view of what constitutes &#8216;normality&#8217;. Food distributions are limited and erratic &#8230; whilst more vulnerable individuals &#8230; often end up unserved. . . There is limited primary health care coverage across migrant and refugee sites&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1218.2/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Under specific criteria and safeguards, relocation is one of the few viable long-term solutions for the protection of the most vulnerable unaccompanied children&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2016-12-08">8 December</phrase> 2015; Vol. 603, c. 864.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1221.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the minimum required to give effective protection to those overseas domestic workers who are being abused while in the UK&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1221.1/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;detention has an incontrovertibly deleterious effect on the health of pregnant women and their unborn children&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1226.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;children engaging in survival sex to pay smugglers to continue their journey, either because they have run out money, or because they have been robbed&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1226.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;an affront to the dignity and humanity of every one of us&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1226.2/15" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;an enduring example of the difference that good people can make even in the darkest of times.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d1233.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;in which families see an advantage&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="d1237.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="d1237.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 294, Noes 276.</p>