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The Ministry of Defence site in Manston
DIRE conditions at an overcrowded asylum-seeker holding centre in Kent constitute a “major incident,” ministers were warned today.
Military personnel have been drafted in to support immigration officials to run the facility, where outbreaks of infections, violence and “catastrophic overcrowding” have been reported, MPs heard on Thursday.
Responding to an urgent question in the Commons, new Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick insisted that the Manston processing centre provides a “secure environment” for arrivals and their basic needs.
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
Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
