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Tories' hostile environment policies caused hundreds of asylum-seeker children to go missing, campaigners say
Homes Not Hotels activists protest outside Brighton and Hove's town hall [Homes Not Hotels]

TORY hostile environment policies have “directly resulted in hundreds of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children going missing all over the country,” campaigners charged at a protest in Brighton & Hove.

Migrant justice group Homes Not Hotels demanded “accountability, transparency and action” from ministers, councillors and local Labour MP Peter Kyle at a demo outside the East Sussex city’s town hall on Thursday night.

The rally followed reports in January that at least 136 children have disappeared from a Home Office-requisitioned hotel in Hove, with 73 still unaccounted for.

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