This is beyond appalling.
'At least 18 asylum seekers are now believed to have slept on the streets this week after at least two buses
left them at Victoria station, forcing three charities and two councils to provide emergency help.
Seven of the “highly vulnerable people” from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Egypt and Kuwait with no family or friends in the UK spent two nights outdoors. They are now being helped by the charity Crisis, whose chief executive, Matt Downie, accused the Home Office of causing “sheer confusion”.
They were among asylum seekers – including some from Afghanistan and Syria – bussed from Kent to London after the home secretary, Suella Braverman, ordered
people to be moved after outrage over conditions including cold, overcrowding and disease.
On Friday, amid ongoing pressure on Braverman to get a grip on the crisis at Manston, the home office minister, Chris Philp, was accused of “callous complacency” by the Liberal Democrats after he said: “If people choose to enter a country illegally, and unnecessarily …
it’s a bit of a cheek to then start complaining about the conditions.” The overcrowded centre, which housed more than 4,000 people, uses marquees for sleeping accommodation and there have been reports of
outbreaks of diphtheria and Covid.
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On Friday the council was working to get the group to Lunar House in Croydon, a Home Office immigration processing centre, to be assessed by officials, where, according to Downie, some have been told to approach Crisis’s Croydon office for accommodation.
“We have been trying to get people help and trying to get them housing and support and trying to find out why on earth the Home Office is referring people to us given that they have a responsibility for these people,” he said.'
Latest group are among scores of people removed from Manston immigration centre in Kent by Home Office with no offer of shelter
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