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 woman has recalled the moment a brazen asylum seeker came into her home to evade police and demanded to use her phone.
Sue Doyle, from Aycliffe, says the man asked to be driven to Manchester after reportedly arriving on a boat at the nearby Shakespeare Beach in Dover.
#UK #asylumcrisis
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/asylum-seeker-entered-womans-home-after-beach-landing-275843/

Taxpayers are paying £5.6million a day to house tens of thousands of asylum seekers in hotels after the Home Office managed to process just four per cent of asylum claims from people who crossed the Channel last year.
#illegalimmigrants #UK #asylumcrisis
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11356031/Government-spending-5-6m-DAY-hotel-bills-asylum-seekers.html

Thousands of asylum seekers will be housed in rural areas in bid to 'ensure fairness' and spread the numbers out across the country.
It comes after the Home Office was warned it could face thousands of compensation claims for unlawful detention by migrants who were housed for weeks in a processing centre in Manston, Kent.
#uk #asylumcrisis
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11436871/Thousand

An asylum seeker suspected of raping a teenage boy was tracked down to a Home Office-funded migrant hotel housing children in a major security blunder, it has emerged.
#uk #asylumcrisis
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11446085/Row-asylum-seeker-accused-rape-released-police-bail.html

A Conservative MP says homeless people were removed from a hotel in a town to make way for 34 asylum seekers.
"They have turfed out residents who were already in there for temporary accommodation and who have presented themselves as homeless," he said.

"It's not on, to be honest. There's a bigger picture here, which is tackling the issue and stopping people from coming.
#mansfield #asylumcrisis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyxelvn2vkvo?s=09

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

More than half of Britain’s aid budget could be swallowed up by the cost of housing asylum seekers and refugees in the UK.

In an extraordinary admission to Parliament, international development minister Andrew Mitchell said he had been forced to ‘pause’ all decisions on aid funding because Home Office demands on his budget were ‘effectively out of control’.
#asylumcrisis
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11527317/Asylum-seekers-housing-crisis-majority-foreign-aid-budget-minister-says.html

Braverman acting unlawfully over asylum seeker support, high court finds.
The home secretary is acting unlawfully in failing to ensure the rate of support for more than 50,000 asylum seekers is adequate by not implementing an increase of almost £5 a week recommended by officials.
#uk #asylumcrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/17/home-secretary-suella-braverman-acting-unlawfully-over-asylum-seeker-support-high-court-rules

Iraqi man stabbed Southampton university student in bid to be deported.
He had previously been cautioned for criminal damage and battery and in May 2022, was jailed for 12 weeks for racially-aggravated harassment and stalking.
#uk #asylumcrisis
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23343658.iraqi-man-stabbed-southampton-university-student-bid-deported/