Why are schoolchildren making Valentine's Day cards for refugees?

In Birmingham, schoolchildren as young as five have been reportedly asked to write Valentine’s Day cards to asylum seekers. One group of children were said to have created heart-shaped messages with slogans like ‘You are welcome here!. Let us count the ways that school children sending Valentine’s Day cards to asylum seekers might be misinterpreted or otherwise lead to unintended consequences. Let alone whether it might cause alarm to parents, and generally reinforce the idea that the people in charge in this country are either profoundly naive or politically malevolent.

Firstly – how might a Valentine’s Day card be interpreted by the intended recipients? In most of the world, the celebration of what we used to refer to as St. Valentine’s Day is still a very recent phenomenon; its intr