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A coach carrying people arrives at the Manston immigration short-term holding facility in Thanet, Kent, following a number of small boat incidents in the Channel
MINISTERS have been warned against plans to build Greek-style refugee reception centres in Britain after a shocking report laid bare the human cost of the policy.
A year after Greece’s first “closed-controlled access centre” opened in Samos, Doctors without Borders (MSF) warned that every asylum-seeker held there is “suffering from psychological distress.”
The Zervou centre, which began housing refugees in September last year, had received a visit from former home secretary Priti Patel the previous July, raising fears that she planned to create similar structures in this country.
Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
