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Anti-asylum-seeker protests are on the rise as a result of Home Office policy that pits people against each other, warns DAWN EVANS
An idiot hangs a St George Cross flag with the words ‘Refugees not welcome’ on a fence near the asylum accommodation centre at MDP Wethersfield in Essex, where the Home Office plans to detain people at the UK's largest asylum accommodation centre, July 11, 2023

AT THE end of March in a Morning Star article I reported on anti-refugee protests and counter-protests which took place outside a Newquay hotel in Cornwall housing refugees and asylum-seekers. 

I recounted the successful nature of the counter-protests organised by anti-racist and refugee-support-groups in the area.

The counter-protesters easily outnumbered the fear- and hate-fuelled protests by about 10 to one, and so effectively prevented the would-be refugee ejectors from getting anywhere near the hotel front to intimidate the residents. 

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