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NHS has become the new frontier for border control, activists tells Glastonbury festival
Festival goers walk through the site at the Glastonbury Festival in Worthy Farm, Somerset, England, Thursday, June 22, 2023

THE NHS has become the new frontier for border control that is putting migrants’ lives at risk, an activist warned during a debate at the weekend’s Glastonbury festival.

Aliya Yule, of Migrants Organise campaign group, told the festival’s Left Field stage on Saturday that the Home Office is using medical information to detain and deport asylum-seekers.

She said: “We are seeing those with foreign-sounding names targeted, and the erosion of trust between health workers and the communities they are supposed to serve.

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