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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.
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
