The sentencing this week of Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal for the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Leamington Spa has reignited the immigration debate. The two 17-year-old Afghans arrived in the country by small boat, claimed to be minors, and were duly absorbed into the British care system before they committed this horrific crime.

We continue to ask ordinary families, often single women like me, renting modest semis, to absorb adolescents who may speak no English, observe strict religious codes, and carry more trauma than most adults ever will

But behind the justified outrage, a quieter, more uncomfortable truth has been forgotten: the care system we ask to absorb these young men was never designed for them and everyone is paying the price.

It’s not hard-hearted to point out that a strap

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