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Why deported migrants get paid up to £3,000 to leave the country

Hadush Kebatu was given money after threatening to disrupt his deportation flight

The Independent UK

Migrant Deportation Deal: Why Was Sex Offender Given £500 to Leave Quietly?

Home Office horror: Convicted sex offender Hadush Kebatu paid £500 post-mistaken release in migrant deportation scandal. Political fury over taxpayer waste, Epping assaults echo

International Business Times UK

Can the Home Office be fixed?

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: As crisis after crisis piles up for new home secretary Shabana Mahmood, she must have the full backing of her PM and chancellor to do whatever it takes to restore public confidence in the system

The Independent UK

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Inquiry into conditions at Manston asylum centre has stalled, critics say

Lawyers acting for some of those unlawfully detained in appalling conditions at site in 2022 call for end to delays

The Guardian - UK

Mould, mice and rooms with strangers: Inside migrant hotels that government claims are ‘luxury’

MIGRANT CRISIS : This week, the prime minister’s official spokesperson suggested migrant hotels are ‘luxury’ places to live. But with rodent and slug infestations, substandard food and large families packed into single rooms, those living there have a very different story to tell. They talk to Shaheena Uddin about the…

The Independent UK

Home Office minister defends plans to house asylum seekers on military bases

Asylum minister Alex Norris said the two sites in Inverness and East Sussex are an ‘important part’ of driving down hotel use.

Evening Standard

MPs vote down Farage’s proposal for UK to leave ECHR – as it happened

Lib Dems say ECHR protects ‘our elderly and most vulnerable…the very people who need it most’

The Guardian - UK

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HMRC pauses child benefit crackdown after 23,500 families caught up in data error

Parents say they were treated as fraudsters because Home Office travel records failed to show their return to UK

The Guardian - UK

London delivery drivers and barbershops targeted as illegal worker arrests hit record high

More than 1,050 people have been deported, the Government said as it vowed to close a loophole so gig economy employers cannot dodge illegal worker fines

Evening Standard

Outrage Over Killer's Entry: How Illegal Afghan Lorry Trip Led to Uxbridge Horror?

Shocking Uxbridge triple stabbing kills Wayne Broadhurst; 22yo Afghan who entered UK via lorry in 2020 arrested. Community vigil demands immigration reform amid rising knife crime fears in west London

International Business Times UK

Should the Home Office be broken up into two units?

The department is once again the subject of debate about whether it is beyond repair after immigration and prison problems

The Guardian - UK

Man arrested over Uxbridge stabbing entered UK in lorry in 2020, officials say

A 49-year-old man was killed in the incident on Monday evening and two other people were injured.

Evening Standard

Podcast: Asylum system shake up as migrants moved to military sites

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Evening Standard

Housing migrants in barracks worth it to quell public anger despite cost – No 10

The Prime Minister’s official spokesman also rejected suggestions the Government had not moved swiftly enough to grasp the migrant crisis.

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Plans to house UK asylum seekers in barracks are costly and complicated, experts say

Exclusive: Organisations warn using the barracks in Sussex and Inverness may be more expensive than hotels

International Business Times UK

Asylum Hotels To End Soon: Here's How The UK Government Will Do It

UK asylum hotels 2025 crisis: Government eyes military sites for 900 seekers to slash £5.5M daily costs amid squandered billions

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds of asylum seekers to be moved to two UK military sites

Barracks in Inverness and East Sussex will house about 900 men as government aims to end use of hotels

The Independent UK

Plans to end asylum hotels ‘won’t save any money’

The government has suggested closing hotels is a bid to appease the public but critics have said it will not save the taxpayer any money

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The Independent UK

Thousands of families will be torn apart by Labour’s asylum crackdown

Exclusive: More than 6,000 children will be unable to reunite with their loved ones after government paused major route for refugees to come to Britain

The Independent UK

Britain’s asylum hotels must be closed for good

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Billions have been wasted on unfit accommodation that suits neither the migrants who shelter there nor the communities enraged by their presence. It is imperative that the government take decisive steps and build an alternative – now

The Independent UK

Asylum seekers to be housed in barracks in bid to end hotel use

The plans will see men housed at Cameron Barracks in Inverness and Crowborough Training Camp in East Sussex.

Evening Standard

Housing asylum seekers in army barracks may cost more than migrant hotels, admits defence minister

Men to be housed at Cameron Barracks in Inverness and Crowborough Training Camp in East Sussex will be the first of up to 10,000 migrants who the Home Office want to place at military sites

Evening Standard

Podcast: Billions squandered on migrant hotels due to Home Office ‘incompetence’

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Evening Standard

Starmer ‘angry’ over asylum accommodation ‘mess left from last government’

It comes as a report published on Monday said that billions of pounds had been ‘squandered’ on asylum accommodation by Home Office mismanagement.

The Independent UK

Home Office could move asylum seekers into pop-up buildings as it scrambles over migrant hotel crisis

Minister says plans to move away from using migrant hotels will be announced ‘within weeks’

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