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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.
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
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
