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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Aubrey Allegretti and Diane Taylor

Migrant centre in Kent ‘catastrophically overcrowded’, union says

A coach carrying a group of people thought to be migrants arriving at the Manston immigration short-term holding facility in Thanet, Kent
A coach carrying a group of people thought to be migrants arriving at the Manston immigration short-term holding facility in Thanet, Kent earlier this month Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

A migrant processing centre in Kent is “catastrophically overcrowded”, with people waiting for their asylum applications to be processed kept in inhumane conditions and guards not being trained properly, a union leader says.

Criticism of the government’s handling of the facility is mounting, with the chair of a parliamentary select committee saying a “crisis” was brewing given the backlog in the UK of more than 100,000 cases.

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