{"id":1108616,"date":"2021-12-11T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T15:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1108616"},"modified":"2021-12-11T10:28:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T15:28:59","slug":"belgium-up-to-70-per-cent-of-child-migrants-given-age-tests-turn-out-to-be-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/belgium-up-to-70-per-cent-of-child-migrants-given-age-tests-turn-out-to-be-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium: Up to 70 Per Cent of &#039;Child&#039; Migrants Given Age Tests Turn Out to Be Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbelgium-up-to-70-per-cent-of-child-migrants-given-age-tests-turn-out-to-be-adults%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1108616&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236926026-e1639176117165-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Sammy Mahdi, Belgium\u2019s&nbsp;Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, has stated that up to 70 per cent of \u201cchild\u201d migrants submitted for age testing by the government turn out to be adults.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdi commented this week on the situation regarding so-called unaccompanied minors after it was revealed that a migrant arrival centre run by the Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Fedasil) in Brussels had become so overwhelmed that it was not able to accept some migrants, with around 15 being turned away for the first time since 2015.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI have specifically asked Fedasil to accommodate all minors. This situation is unacceptable and I will personally ensure that their reception is respected. Better to take an adult\u2019s bed, than not to have a bed at all,\u201d Mahdi said, according to a Sudinfo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sudinfo.be\/id432351\/article\/2021-12-08\/une-quinzaine-de-mineurs-etrangers-non-accompagnes-ne-pourront-pas-etre\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the meantime, the Guardianship Service must urgently do what is expected of it: carry out age tests. In case of doubt, 70 per cent of them turn out to be adults. But if we have to wait months for an answer, these adult asylum seekers will take the place of the children,\u201d Mahdi added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.9607843137255\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">French Department Reveals 80 Percent of Minor Migrants Are Really Adults <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3DGRxbXgR1\">https:\/\/t.co\/3DGRxbXgR1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1215619298305216512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>A total of 3,018 minor migrants have registered with Fedasil this year and 1,991 have undergone age testing, with 70 per cent of them being revealed to be adults.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, statistics indicate that around a third of all asylum seekers in the Fedasil reception network are minors or alleged minors \u2014 a huge increase since 2019, when they made up just nine per cent of those in the reception centres.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon of child migrants turning out to be adults has been seen in many countries across Europe since the height of the 2015 migrant crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Swedish authorities suggested that just<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/06\/10\/90-per-cent-of-moroccan-minor-migrants-in-sweden-are-adults\/\"> ten per cent<\/a> of Moroccan migrants who had come to Sweden in prior years and claimed to be underage were actually minors.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the&nbsp;French department of&nbsp;C\u00f4te-d\u2019Or reported similar statistics, claiming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/01\/10\/french-department-reveals-80-percent-of-minor-migrants-are-really-adults\/\">just 20 per cent<\/a> of migrant minors who arrived in 2019 were telling the truth about their age.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.986013986014\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">90 Per Cent of Moroccan \u2018Minor\u2019 Migrants in Sweden Are Adults <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kylG4GxJAW\">https:\/\/t.co\/kylG4GxJAW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1138155116693938177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sammy Mahdi, Belgium\u2019s\u00a0Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, has stated that up to 70 per cent of \u201cchild\u201d migrants submitted for age testing by the government turn out to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}