Migrants will lose rights in the event that they proceed lodge protest, warns Jenrick

Asylum seekers who’ve been put up in “generous” lodging in central London however who’re refusing to share the lodge rooms they’ve been designated may lose their proper to public funding for housing, meals or cash, in accordance with some ministers.

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick is assumed to have taken the powerful line after migrants transported to the capital started to protest at having to share lodge rooms with their fellow asylum seekers. It is known he has ordered officers to not again down within the face of their calls for for single rooms.

On Thursday 40 migrants began a protest on the pavement outdoors their Pimlico lodgings after barricading the lodge door with their baggage. When requested to take action, they refused to return to their rooms, telling officers they didn’t resemble the “nice” footage that they had seen on Google.

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They had been moved to the brand new lodging from a lodge in Ilford, Essex. There, that they had been handled to single ensuite rooms.

On Friday, the Telegraph reported that Mr Jenrick was thought to have instructed officers that migrants wouldn’t be permitted to decide on the lodge of their selection or demand particular person rooms, including that this could put additional pressure on taxpayers’ cash. Mr Jenick was quoted as warning that the asylum seekers may settle for the Government’s “generous” provide of lodging — or lose their proper to any assist, together with housing, meals and cash.

According to reviews, letters are being despatched to the migrants saying they’ll lose their help in the event that they refuse the provide. One supply was quoted as saying of the immigration minister: “He is not backing down. This is outrageous behaviour.”

Mr Jenrick had earlier ordered that groups of two, three, or four single adult male migrants would be required to share a single room, rather than have individual rooms. Dubbed Operation Maximise at the Home Office, it was designed to cut down on the £6million a day cost of housing around 50,000 asylum seekers in hotels and make the “pull factor” of coming to the UK less attractive.

Meanwhile, the arrival of migrants to a hotel in central London was met with anger by the leader of Westminster City Council, Adam Hug, who accused the Home Office of failing to tell the local authority about the transfer.

Writing to Home Secretary Suella Braverman, he expressed “deep concern” at asylum seekers being on the streets “without appropriate accommodation or support available, and with no communication to Westminster as the local authority”.

The note continued: “Neither the Home Office nor the hotel itself responded to this incident, ultimately leaving it to council officers to manage and support this large group overnight. I would ask that you urgently clarify how this was allowed to happen, why this was acceptable, and why no communication was made with the local authority.”

Blaming the situation on “poor administration of their switch from a lodge in Ilford, Essex”, he added: “When dealing with a group of people where many of whom are likely to have been through significant and traumatic events that have led them to seek asylum, asking them to share an inappropriately sized room with multiple strangers defies common sense and basic decency.”

The Telegraph quoted one 27-year-old Iranian as saying: “Two square metres is not enough for sleeping four people. And when you go to the toilet, the smell damages you.”

A 21-year-old migrant from Iran, who arrived in England after crossing the Channel in a small boat, stated: “They said we’re going to move you to another, better place. They gave us this postcode. When we checked on Google Maps, we said, ‘oh this is very nice’. But when you get in, it’s like a jail. And they treat you very, very bad. They treat you like an animal.

“We didn’t come to a better life. We came to save our lives. If the Iranian government take me, they’re going to hang me because I fought for freedom. I’m Kurdish. Too many people in my family, too many people in my nationality, they’re hanged.

“We’ll stay [on the street] until the Home Office does something for us. We can stay even for one month. It’s all right.”