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It seems merely bending over and accepting the illegal invaders to the UK isn't enough anymore.
Now, we f*uckin' pay them to live here too.

Afghan migrant with Adam’s apple wins £25k ‘because he’s a child’

'An Afghan migrant who was deemed an adult by UK authorities because he had a “protruding
Adam’s apple” has won £25,000 after an asylum judge ruled he was a child.


A Day At The 'Pay-Out' Country.

The migrant – who came to Britain on a small boat – was awarded the payout after an immigration
judge ruled that officials were wrong to conclude he was over 18. The Afghan had a large Adam’s
apple, bags under his eyes and skin that “did not appear youthful”, a tribunal heard. Official age
assessors at St Helens borough council in Merseyside concluded he was aged between 23 and
25 when he arrived.

An upper immigration tribunal overturned that decision, ruling that the authorities had relied on
“pseudoscientific indicators”. The court said the date of birth the Afghan gave – of January 5, 2007
– was correct and found he was 17 upon his arrival. He was awarded £25,000 ($33.546) to cover
his publicly-funded legal costs after winning his appeal.

The Upper Tribunal heard that the man, from an unnamed village in Afghanistan, told the Home
Office he was born in 2005 when he arrived in the UK before subsequently correcting it to January 5,
2007.

He told council assessors “he was stressed and confused” when he arrived in the UK and did not
know what he was pointing to when he pointed at a date of birth of May 25, 2005. He said he had
not eaten in more than two days at that point and did not speak much English.

The migrant’s mother later told him his date of birth according to Afghanistan’s Pashto calendar over
the phone – he had previously said “dates of birth were just not important to him when he was in
Afghanistan”.

The asylum seeker, who has been granted anonymity, added that he had not gone to school because
the one in his area had been “blown up in the war.” He added that “he fled Afghanistan because of his
father having issues with the Taliban connected to his father’s role as a police officer”.

St Helens council assessors decided the migrant was aged between 23 and 25 because his “skin did
not appear youthful,” he had “established lines within features of his face common with maturity,"
“bagginess in the upper and lower eye lines,” and a “protruding Adam’s apple.”

They said: “The [migrant]’s facial structure appears fully developed. These features are consistent with
a person who has exceeded maturity, and more common with an adult and less likely features of a
child under the age of eighteen years. However, it is acknowledged that the [migrant]’s life in
Afghanistan and journey to the UK could have had an impact on his physical development.”

However, Upper Tribunal Judge Abid Mahmood criticised the age assessment for relying on the
migrant’s Adam’s apple as an indicator of his age, saying “an Adam’s apple adds very little in
assessing whether [he] was above the age of 18”. He added: “I did not observe lines on [his] face.”

Judge Mahmood said: “The judgement concludes that the local authority’s age assessment was
procedurally unfair and substantively flawed.” He noted that one of the “key deficiencies” of the
assessment was the “reliance on pseudoscientific indicators such as physical appearance without
medical expertise”.

The judge found that the man’s date of birth was the date he claimed, making him 18 years old now.
He concluded that St Helens Borough Council should pay for his legal costs, which were publicly
-funded. The migrant’s asylum claim is being considered separately...'

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