Leader of the United Kingdom Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has suggested migrants should be housed in camps instead of hotels.
She made the suggestion on Monday, August 11, during a visit to Essex.
Badenoch explained that some communities feel unsafe as a result of migrant hotels.
Speaking in Epping, which has been the centre of anti-asylum seeker hotel protests, Mrs Badenoch said “Is it possible for us to set up camps and police that, rather than bringing all of this hassle into communities?.
She added “As a party, we need to also hear from the community about what you think the solutions are. We don’t have all the answers, It is important that we make sure that the community is part of the problem solved”.
During her visit Badenoch also warned that some communities don’t feel safe.
Speaking about the possibility of putting asylum seekers in in camps, she said;
“We need to make sure that communities like Epping are safe.
“What a lot of the parents – the mothers even some of the children – have said to me is that they don’t feel safe.
“It is unfair to impose burden on communities… lots of people here have been harassed by a lot of people in the hotels”.
Her trip to Essex followed weeks of protests at Bell Hotel, which hosts immigrants, after an asylum seekers was charged with allegedly attempt to kiss a 14-year-old girls.
Badenoch said: “Not everyone here is genuine asylum seekers. People are arriving in country illegally.
“This is why we have a plan to make sure that people who arrive here illegally are deported immediately.
“We need to close down that pathway to citizenship, that means that lots of people get here not making any contributions, claiming welfare, claiming benefits. We also need a deterrent.
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