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The National (Scotland)
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Adam Robertson

Suella Braverman accused of 'ignoring' legal warnings about migrant centres

SUELLA Braverman has been accused of ignoring legal warnings that the Home Office was breaking the law by keeping asylum seekers in overcrowded and disease-ridden processing centres for too long. 

The Sunday Times reports that the Home Secretary was told at least three weeks ago that migrants were being kept in overcrowded centres in Manston in Kent for unlawful lengths of time. 

Under current UK law, migrants are not supposed to be kept in processing centres for more than 24 hours. 

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