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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Independent and Lauren MacDougall

Voices: ‘Short-term fix to a bigger crisis’: Readers react to Epping asylum hotel ruling

Independent readers are divided over the High Court ruling that asylum seekers must be moved out of The Bell Hotel in Epping, with many seeing it as a fraught and short-term fix to a wider housing and migration crisis.

Many argued the judgement sets a dangerous precedent, effectively rewarding protests and unrest by closing hotels, and leaving asylum seekers displaced without proper alternatives.

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