{"id":203259,"date":"2025-06-21T19:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T19:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203259\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T19:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T19:20:13","slug":"migrants-asking-where-is-the-hotel-seconds-after-arriving-in-uk-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203259\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants asking ‘where is the hotel?’ seconds after arriving in UK | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whistleblowers at an asylum centre in Kent have described being overwhelmed as they try to process migrants<\/a> on peak crossing days<\/a>. Manston in Kent has seen a former RAF base turned into a large processing centre for those arriving on buses after entering the country to apply for asylum.<\/p>\n

Staff at the site have told the Daily Mail of their inability to thoroughly check those coming in due to the sheer number of arrivals at certain times. As a result, some are able to walk the streets of Britain without authorities being able to substantiate their background<\/a> or the safety of allowing them to do so. According to one worker, the first question many ask is about the hotel accommodation that they expect to get on their arrival.<\/p>\n

A young male worker at the camp told the Daily Mail<\/a>: \u201cThey ask us that hotel question immediately.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey expect to get a hotel bed straight away and that is one key reason they come to the UK. We are told not to answer \u2013 to distract them by offering a bag of crisps or a bottle of water.\u201d<\/p>\n

Less than a month ago, staff at the centre were asked to work overtime as they rushed to process more than 1,000 migrants who arrived in the UK in a single day.<\/p>\n

The taxpayer-funded facility in Manston is the UK\u2019s biggest asylum seeker processing facility.<\/a><\/p>\n

It was designed to process up to 1,000 people a time for less than 24 hours but the former RAF base has housed over 4,000 people at a time for up to 33 days.<\/p>\n

Another worker added: \u201cWe know what the migrants tell us is often a falsehood but there is nothing we can do. We have to write it on their records as though it is the truth.<\/p>\n

\u201cTime and again, the migrants give us the same fantasy story as if they have learned a script. The Afghans say they are running from the Taliban.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome Africans from strict religious countries say they are gay and they will be killed at home for their homosexuality. A lot even give the same birth date of January 1.\u201d<\/p>\n

A third worker explained: \u201cBritain is being hoodwinked. We have to accept at face value that their name and country is correct. There is no way of telling because, since Brexit<\/a>, the EU police don’t allow Britain to cross check the fingerprints or information collected when the migrant first entered Europe before arriving at Calais for the boats.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome will have been deported from EU countries for crimes. Some will have spent time in prison abroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we don’t know \u2013 we can only start with a blank sheet. Yet within days these strangers are sprinkled around the country. If they are considered a potential danger to us staff, why are they not considered a risk to the British public?\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves said extra cash will be made available<\/a> to the Home Office in order to \u201ccut the asylum backlog, hear more appeal cases and return people who have no right to be here\u201d.<\/p>\n

It came as part of a commitment to end the use of hotels for migrants<\/a> awaiting the outcome of asylum applications by the end of the parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whistleblowers at an asylum centre in Kent have described being overwhelmed as they try to process migrants on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[81948,2527,2946,40,495,81949,5804,6657,12,2300,81947,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-203259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-asylum-processing","10":"tag-asylum-seekers","11":"tag-english-channel-migrant-crossings","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-kent","14":"tag-manston","15":"tag-migrant-crisis","16":"tag-migration","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-raf","19":"tag-raf-base","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114722978127726675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}