Asylum seekers who have made the Channel crossing can be detained for up to four days under new rules quietly announced by the Government.
The Tories have handed themselves the power to quadruple the length of time that migrants can be held in short-term processing facilities like crisis-hit Manston, in Kent, from January 5.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman is tweaking the law so people who have arrived in the UK in small boats can be held for "a period of not more than 96 hours" - unless a longer period is authorised by the Government.
