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Asylum Evictions Ordered After Violent Protests at Essex Hotel — What Happens Next for Migrants and the Community?

The Bell Hotel became the centre of a storm last month after a resident asylum-seeker, Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, was charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl.

International Business Times UK

Minister brands Farage ‘the very worst’ kind of politician over asylum hotel claims

Dan Jarvis said ‘the very worst’ politicians try to drive people apart

The Independent UK

Government working on contingency plans after ruling on Epping migrant hotel

Ministers are now bracing for further legal challenges from councils across the country.

Evening Standard

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UK Government strikes returns deal with Iraq in latest migration crackdown

The UK Government has agreed a new deal with Iraq to return illegal migrants as part of wider moves to limit small boat crossings

The National (Scotland)

Council leaders weigh up legal challenges to migrant hotels after Epping ruling

Broxbourne Council in Hertfordshire is the first to say it is taking legal advice after the High Court ruling on migrant hotels.

The Independent UK

London commuter belt town is 'following Epping's path' to shut down migrant hotel after court injunction

Conservative-run Broxbourne Council said it was taking legal advice ‘as a matter of urgency’ over a migrant hotel in Cheshunt

Evening Standard

Government strikes returns deal with Iraq in latest bid to deter small boats

The agreement signed during a visit to the UK by Iraq’s deputy prime minister will allow for the ‘swift’ return of failed asylum seekers.

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Government signs deal with Iraq to return illegal migrants in latest bid to deter small boats

It comes after an £800,000 deal last year with Baghdad to help the country crack down on smuggling networks

The Independent UK

Migrant returns deal struck with Iraq in latest bid to deter small boat Channel crossings

The deal will allow for the ‘swift’ return of failed asylum seekers, the Home Office said

Evening Standard

High court asylum hotels ruling leaves Cooper scrambling for alternatives

Yvette Cooper joins a long line of home secretaries who have promised to find alternatives to hotels

The Guardian - UK

‘A victory for mums and dads’ as asylum seekers to be removed from Essex hotel

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch hits out at Labour for ‘putting young male illegal immigrants’ in towns

Evening Standard

Ministers braced for further legal challenges after High Court Epping decision

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage hailed the decision a ‘victory’.

Evening Standard

UK agrees to drop its Apple encryption backdoor request – but digital rights experts aren't ready to celebrate

For now, the power to undermine encryption remains in the UK law under the Investigatory Powers Act. Digital rights experts now call for an amendment.

TechRadar

Home Office intervention blocked as English council bids to stop housing refugees

THE Home Office has asked to intervene in a court case brought by an English council attempting to block asylum seekers from being housed in a local…

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Asylum seekers to be moved out of protest-hit Epping hotel after council wins temporary ban

Council applied for urgent injunction against use of The Bell Hotel to house asylum seekers amid violent protests at the site

Evening Standard

Epping council wins High Court fight to evict asylum seekers from hotel as judge grants bombshell injunction

Asylum seekers will be moved from the Bell Hotel within 28 days thanks to the High Court order

The Guardian - UK

UK has backed down on demand to access US Apple user data, spy chief says

Tulsi Gabbbard says Home Office no longer demanding ‘backdoor’ to encrypted material

The Guardian - UK

‘Nothing is the same’: Windrush victim allowed to return to UK after 28 years

George Lee was stuck in Poland and received little help from UK officials even after the scandal broke in 2018

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A fresh use for 35mm film canisters

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The National (Scotland)

'Home Office urged us to return to Syria – despite my kids facing death threats'

THE Home Office tried to talk a Syrian family into returning to their home country despite death threats levelled against the mother and children…

The National (Scotland)

Far-right protest in Falkirk met by anti-racism counter-demo outside asylum hotel

COUNTER-PROTESTERS faced-off with a far-right demonstration in Falkirk, outside of a former hotel housing asylum seekers.

The Guardian - UK

Four ways the UK has tried to stop small boat Channel crossings

From Rwanda to wave machines, successive governments have tried, and failed, to deter people crossing from France

Evening Standard

Epping asylum seeker hotel 'feeding ground for violent unrest', says council in High Court bid to shut it down

The Bell Hotel has been at the centre of violent protests over its housing of asylum seekers

The Guardian - UK

People held under UK’s ‘one in, one out’ asylum deal say they had not heard of it

Some of first group of small boat arrivals to be detained say they are terrified of being sent back to their home countries

The National (Scotland)

Arms firms lobbied for Palestine Action 'terrorists' label, files reveal

AN arms lobby group pressed both the UK and Scottish Governments to curb movements from Palestine Action more than a month before the group was…

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