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Asylum seekers ‘fed cold hot dogs and sleep on cardboard’ at Kent processing centre
Asylum seekers say mouldy, rotten hotel food is making them ill
Lifeboat crew on training course gets shown the door by bosses to make way for asylum seekers
Suella Braverman challenges critics to oust her in asylum row
Asylum seekers: UK spending almost £7m a day on hotels
Two Russians fleeing Vladimir Putin’s draft arrive in US by boat seeking asylum
Asylum claimants’ hotel bills cost nearly £1.3billion per year, shock report claims
ASYLUM claimants’ hotel bills cost nearly £1.3billion per year, a shock report claims.
Analysis suggests 25,000 are in short-term lodgings, at £4,300 a month each.
Asylum claimants’ hotel bills cost nearly £1.3billion per year, a shock report claims[/caption]
Another 80,000 are in longer-term housing, which could cost an extra £550million per year.
Total asylum costs have hit £2billion for the first time, stats revealed this summer.
Tory MP Tom Hunt said last night: “The amount of money being spent is concerning.”
The number of migrants crossing the Channel to come to Britain has hit 30,515 this year after a further 667 got here on Wednesday.
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Alp Mehmet, chairman of Migration Watch UK which compiled the report, called on new Home Secretary Suella Braverman to act.
He said: “As the illegal boat arrivals soared over the summer, the number being housed in hotels has likely gone up too.
“It is now costing the already hard-pressed taxpayer eye-watering sums.
“The Home Secretary must now show the resolve needed to deal with the costly chaos.”
THE SUN SAYS
THE open-borders brigade pretend asylum- seekers are no real burden.
But we now know what that burden is: A staggering £2billion a year, of which £1.3billion is hotel bills.
That figure will only climb, with more than 30,000 illegal migrants having landed on our beaches this year so far.
Our new Government vows to finally end this scandal. How, exactly?
Liz Truss failed even to mention it to President Macron in New York. Why?
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Why 13 years later, Arkham Asylum is still the best Batman game
The worst day of my life was at EGX about 4 years ago.
Nestled in the retro area of the exhibition hall in front of a row of black, plasticy LCD TVs sat a young boy of about 10 years old. Interested in what was passing for retro in this modern era, I hung around for a minute as the loading bar finished spinning and what I saw filled me with hollow, existential dread.
Next to the Pac-Man cabinets and CRTs with Super Mario Bros and Sonic the Hedgehog flickering on their screens, the kid wasn’t playing Arkanoid, or Asteroid, or any other -Oid, but Batman: Arkham Asylum on a PS3.