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THE Home Office has scrapped plans to house 200 asylum-seekers in a “prison-style” camp next to a detention centre a major victory for local campaigners. The department confirmed today that it has decided not to proceed with the proposals, which would have seen asylum-seekers “housed” in prefabricated portacabins beside Yarl’s Wood in Bedfordshire. The plans, which emerged late last year, prompted a huge backlash from local MPs, councillors and campaigners, who launched legal action against the expansion of the notorious detention centre. Campaigners had raised fears about asylum-seekers’ wellbeing at the remote site and the traumatising impact of being held on the estate of an immigration jail. ....
The Home Office has been accused of pandering to the far right by dumping asylum-seekers in dilapidated army barracks after internal documents came to light suggesting the decision was politically motivated. The government has come under increasing pressure to shut down two Ministry of Defence sites where it has been holding hundreds of asylum-seekers since September amid serious concerns over safety. On Friday a fire broke out at Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent, part-destroying one building. A charity supporting residents there said that asylum-seekers had been “completely abandoned” without water, food or power following the blaze. Today Care4Calais founder Clare Moseley told the Morning Star that generators have since been installed to return power to the barracks and that meals were resumed by camp management on Saturday. ....
Last modified on Sat 16 Jan 2021 12.41 EST Pressure is mounting on the Home Office over its plans to house nearly 200 asylum seekers in what campaigners have described as a “prison-style” camp on the site of an immigration jail. The construction of prefab-style accommodation at the privately run Yarl’s Wood centre in Bedfordshire follow a series of damning reports on conditions at two former army barracks sites in Kent and Pembrokeshire being used to hold up to 600 asylum-seeking men. Campaigners have started legal action against the expansion of Yarl’s Wood, which is set to house its first asylum seekers imminently, while councillors in Bedford have spoken out against the new development. ....