200 Refugee Kids Missing From UK ‘Specialist Hotels’, Sunak Busy Pitching ‘Rwanda Plan’

As many as 200 asylum-seeking children, mostly Albanian boys, have gone missing from hotels that they were housed in by the British government since 2021. Of the 200 unaccompanied children, who were placed in hotels due to an alleged strain on the country’s asylum accommodation system, at least 13 are under the age of 16 and one is a girl. British Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick made the admission in parliament on Jan. 24, amid calls for an investigation into the matter. The government’s admission follows a probe by The Observer in which a whistle-blower from a Home Office hotel said that children were being abducted off the street and forced into cars. This has raised fears that the children may have fallen into the hands of traffickers. What did PM Rishi Sunak say? Why are activists saying that this was a disaster waiting to happen? Watch for details.