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The Home Office has announced that it has started to move asylum seekers into a military barracks in East Sussex as part of its policy of getting them out of hotels.
In a news release in which it refers to them as “illegal migrants”, the Home Office says:
The site accommodates single adult male illegal migrants who are claiming asylum in the UK in basic, safe accommodation while their claims are being assessed.
The first 27 migrants have been moved into the site which will be scaled up to more than 500. They will only be housed there for up to three months while their asylum claim is processed before being removed from the country if their claim is rejected.
Illegal migration has been placing immense pressure on communities.
That is why we are removing the incentives that draw illegal migrants to Britain, closing asylum hotels that are blighting communities.
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