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The UK government on Wednesday unveiled new plans to house illegal migrants in disused military sites, with the first tranche of such locations tabled in the House of Commons as part of Prime Minister Rishi Sunaks proposed Stop the Boats crackdown against dangerous crossings facilitated by people smugglers...
UK Immigration minister Robert Jenrick told MPs of plans to house migrants at former Royal Air Force (RAF) sites in Essex, Lincolnshire and East Sussex in England...
The move is intended to tackle the eye-watering 2.3 billion pounds a year bill for hotels used to house asylum seekers who land on UK shores...
The minister said that the sheer number of small boat arrivals has overwhelmed the countrys asylum system and forced the government to place asylum seekers in hotels, which take valuable assets away from communities and place pressures on local public services...
He pointed to the governments Illegal Migration Bill, which is currently being debated in Parliament, as an enduring solution to stop the boats and said the new funding will be made available for local authorities to help deal with the cost of the new accommodation sites...
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