Asylum seekers at a coronavirus-hit army barracks were evacuated to hotels for quarantine at ’15 minutes notice’, it has been claimed, as photos emerge of migrants being loaded onto minibuses at the site this afternoon. Some migrants also said they were forced to share rooms with others who had tested positive for the virus before … Read more
Fears of a health crisis at a military barracks housing asylum seekers in Kent have escalated after 120 people are believed to have tested positive for coronavirus. Around 400 people are living at Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent, where a Covid outbreak has added to concerns over conditions. Residents, many of whom have crossed the … Read more
An Iranian asylum seeker who twice tried to ferry a total of 36 fellow migrants across the Channel in overloaded dinghies – the UK’s biggest people smuggling bid using rubber boats – has been jailed for two years. Fouad Kakaei was sentenced after being found to be in charge of piloting the cramped vessels during … Read more
MPs have clashed over proposed changes to the UK asylum system due to coming into force next year. Several ‘camps’ lacking mains electricity and water are to be created to house asylum seekers, according to a Conservative former immigration minister. Caroline Nokes warned the Home Office’s proposed changes coming into force on January 1 ‘have … Read more
Migrants will be banned from making UK asylum claims at sea under tough new laws to crackdown on small boats crossing the English Channel Home Office is planning law to ban migrants from making asylum claims at sea New law could ultimately see migrant boats immediately taken back to France Ministers said new law needed … Read more
Almost 1,000 asylum seekers are allowed to stay in UK to escape sexual persecution in their home country Almost 1,000 gay, lesbian or bisexual applicants were offered sanctuary in 2018 Home Office sources say that homosexuality putting a person at risk was one of the main arguments made in last-minute legal challenges to deportation 501 … Read more
Locals have reacted with ‘horror’ to a proposal to house 500 asylum seekers in portable cabins near a picturesque village near one of the south’s busiest trunk roads. The plan is for the asylum applicants to be stay in the makeshift housing on Ministry of Defence land by the A303 at Barton Stacey, Hants, while … Read more
Queen’s cousin blasts asylum plot in The Crown as ‘fantasy’ and says it caused ‘frustration’ in the family By Elliot Mulligan For The Daily Mail Published: 01:59 GMT, 2 December 2020 | Updated: 01:59 GMT, 2 December 2020 A cousin of the Queen has criticised an episode of The Crown, labelling it ‘fiction pretending to … Read more
These creepy images reveal the haunting remains of an abandoned Irish lunatic asylum which was once overcrowded with mentally ill patients who were forced into straitjackets and padded cells. The mental hospital in Ballinasloe, which opened in 1833 to take care of ‘curable lunatics’ and ‘dangerous idiots’ who were sometimes sent away from prisons and workhouses … Read more
Priti Patel vows ‘fundamental reform’ of asylum law tackling deportation delays on ‘human rights’ grounds and making it easier to kick out criminals as she bids to put bully row behind her Priti Patel vowed to introduce ‘fundamental reform’ to Brtain’s asylum system Pledged to make it easier to expel migrants without legitimate right to … Read more