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The British government is considering a plan to require schools to check the immigration status of their pupils, reveals the daily.
According to a chain of leaked emails, the policy proposal is being evaluated by the inter-ministerial group (IMG) on migrants' access to benefits and public services.
The Guardian claims the emails
suggest that the group considered banning illegal immigrant children from schools. However, the civil servants [from the Department of Education] warned that the UK would be in contravention of article 28 of the UN convention on the rights.
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