When the Home Office left a group of people seeking asylum stranded at London’s Victoria Station last week, the scenes were stark. Hungry, cold and disoriented, they had been transported from Manston immigration centre, where 4,000 people were being crammed into a space built for 1,600.
Outbreaks of illness and reports of abuse are just part of the increasingly dire situation at Manston, and in the UK’s immigration system more generally.
