As culture shocks go, the arrival of scores of refugees from some of the globe’s worst trouble-spots in a Devon holiday resort must be one of the biggest. Torbay Council had just a few days’ notice that the Home Office was taking over an 80-bed hotel at Paignton to house asylum seekers.
#asylumcrisis #Devon #hotels
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/asylum-seekers-embrace-paignton-safe-7579280

As culture shocks go, the arrival of scores of refugees from some of the globe’s worst trouble-spots in a Devon holiday resort must be one of the biggest. Torbay Council had just a few days’ notice that the Home Office was taking over an 80-bed hotel at Paignton to house asylum seekers.
#asylumcrisis #Devon #hotels
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/asylum-seekers-embrace-paignton-safe-7579280

More than 100 unaccompanied child migrants remain missing after disappearing from UK hotels over a 14-month period.
Some 1,606 children who arrived alone between July 2021 and June 2022 were placed in hotel accommodation by the Home Office.
#migrantcrisis #UK #Hotels
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63231470

Buckingham hotel that houses asylum seekers in £85-a-night rooms.
And now 31 of its 40-strong workforce has been fired after the hotel signed a deal to house asylum seekers rather than paying guests.
#hotels #asylumcrisis
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20112269/hotel-sacks-workforce-asylum-seekers/

A council has lost its High Court fight to keep asylum seekers out of one of Stoke-on-Trent's most historic hotels. Stoke-on-Trent City Council had secured an interim injunction to stop the asylum seekers moving into the North Stafford Hotel, in Stoke.

It means asylum seekers could now take up all 88 rooms at the hotel.
#asylumchaos #hotels
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/council-loses-high-court-fight-7777736

Families “living in fear” of hundreds of migrants in their town have set up their own security patrols.
Locals say two hotels have been filled by 400 male migrants who they have accused of muggings, and cat-calling to women and schoolgirls.
#Invasion #hotels #uk
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20306049/town-migrants-moved-in-security-patrol/?

York Hospital has been left in a “very vulnerable” position after the government said it wanted to use accommodation currently used by nurses to house asylum seekers.
#uk #hotels
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/23123438.york-hospital-vulnerable-nurses-hotels-taken-asylum-seekers/

The number of migrants housed in hotels has hit 40,000 after the Home Office emptied the Manston processing centre.
Sources said there were now a record number of migrants - most of whom arrived by small boat across the Channel - in hotel accommodation .
At a cost of £5.6million a day at the beginning of this month. #uk #asylumcrisis #hotels
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11458127/Number-migrants-hotels-hits-40-000-Home-Office-emptied-Manston-processing-centre.html

Plans to start moving migrants out of hotels and into military bases or even potentially disused ferries are expected to be announced by the government within weeks.
#UK #asylumchaos #hotels
https://news.sky.com/story/plans-to-house-migrants-on-military-bases-and-disused-ferries-to-be-announced-within-weeks-12842083

Migrant hotel bill costs taxpayers massive £8m a DAY as Home Office boss in charge of stopping boats awarded mega bonus.
#uk #invasion #illegalmigrants #hotels https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/24020298/migrant-hotel-bill-8m-a-day/