Former military base to continue housing asylum seekers
An old military base in the city will continue to host asylum seekers despite previous concerns about bad living conditions.
The Ministry of the Interior would stop using the Napier barracks in Folkestone to host the immigrants applying for asylum from September, but since then he decided to extend his use until the end of the year.
Although the former military field in Folkestone was defined by a judge as “Squalid” in 2021, it has been used to host asylum seekers since 2020.
Decision to expand its use, Supreme Court Decision This prevented the use of a hotel to host asylum seekers and paved the way for similar legal processes on other hotels.
The Napier Barracks began as an unexpected situation for immigrants looking for asylum at the beginning of Covid Pandememi.
However, in 2021, after the fire and eruption of the virus in the field, the Supreme Court decision found that his accommodation was insufficient.
Mr. Justice Linden found that the barracks were overcrowded, ended with “filthy” facilities and contained “detention -like” environments for men.
The Ministry of Interior said that he made “important” improvements on the site the following year – but still Calls from MPs for closure.
Under the worker, he said that the Napier Barracks in March this year would operate as a housing for asylum seekers in September. This deadline was extended until December.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, “to fulfill our legal obligations and to reduce the cost of asylum accommodation and to end the use of asylum hotels until the end of this parliament,” he said.
The announcement comes hours after the Minister of the Interior announced the revision of the asylum system, which aims to interrupt the number of people in temporary accommodation while waiting for the asylum decision.
Yette Cooper said that a new independent referees will quickly follow the appeal decisions that should be heard for more than a year.
During this period, asylum seekers whose applications failed are covered at the expense of the taxpayer. There are still 32,000 asylum seekers in hotels.
It follows the commitment to end the government’s confidence in hotels for migrants. Protests throughout England on their use.
