THE UK Government’s immigration system “does not respect asylum seekers as human beings”, Scotland’s first refugee councillor has said after hearing about congested conditions at an immigration centre in Kent.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman is facing questions over the conditions at the Manston site which Tory MP Sir Roger Gale has branded as “wholly unacceptable”, with reports of asylum seekers testing positive for diphtheria – a highly contagious and potentially serious bacterial infection.
