The asylum crisis rocking the government
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Editor Mark Easton answers five key questions on the UK's migration processing centres.
A migration processing centre in Kent has become the focus of a growing political row with reports of overcrowding, violence and disease. Some 4,000 people are being held in Manston in Kent - more than twice the number it's designed for. Migrants are also only supposed to be kept there for 24 hours while paper work is processed or for asylum claims to be made - before people are moved on to accommodation elsewhere. But on a recent visit, the chief inspector of immigration found some people had been there for over a month. So what's going on? What’s gone wrong? And what can be done? The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Editor Mark Easton has the answers to five key questions on Manston, and the UK's migration processing centres.
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