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DESTITUTE migrants and asylum-seekers are at risk of starvation as the centres that they rely on for food and support close amid the coronavirus pandemic, charities warned today.
A number of migrant-rights groups are calling on the government to lift restrictions on undocumented migrants and asylum-seekers being able to access healthcare, housing and benefits.
Under current laws, asylum-seekers are not permitted to work or access the benefits system and are given very little support by the Home Office: £37.75 per week. Failed asylum-seekers receive no support at all.
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10