You can see what the problem is here.
The best place for a child is with its parents.
An unaccompanied child should be looked after.
So you have a policy that unaccompanied children will be offered homes in the UK. Then the parents pop up, so naturally you welcome the parents too. What possible safeguard could you have?
If that was it then it would be fine, but everybody except Angela Merkel will probably have worked out that there will suddenly be a lot more unaccompanied children looking for a home.
Not to say that I wouldn't do the same. If someone wants to enter the EU and there are hurdles to jump, then they will work out the way to do it.
Nor is that the end of it. It does nothing to solve the problems in the countries of origin, which will continue to produce a continuous stream of migrants for as long as those problems exist.
The adage 'charity begins at home' has a meaning beyond the obvious.
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