Migrant hotel map that shows scale of Britain’s asylum crisis
This map of Britain reveals the dramatic rise in the number of hotels requisitioned by the Government to house migrants at a £6.8 million daily cost to taxpayers.
Cities, towns and villages from London to rural Lincolnshire, Wales’s snowdonia to Devon
seaside resorts, are providing emergency rooms, at up to £150 a night per person, for thousands of arrivals needing a roof over their heads in the growing immigration crisis.
it is thought at least 200 hotels have now been taken over by the Government, housing some 37,000 migrants. Approximately a third are marked on this map, including a cluster of 20 in the West Midlands, housing hundreds of migrant guests.
The Mail has discovered that some state-requisitioned hotels, now closed to the visiting public, have given sanctuary to young men earmarked for deportation after slipping into the UK on traffickers’ Channel boats within the past few weeks.
We have interviewed a young Albanian who paid £4,500 for the clandestine journey to Dover from France, and was then sent to Manston processing centre in Kent for initial identity checks.
he was placed on immigration bail — meaning he was liable to be dispatched back to Albania — yet was still given a room at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Basingstoke, hampshire, where he was free to come and go.
he has since walked out of the hotel and is in hiding somewhere in the UK (from where he gave us an interview) despite being a suspected illegal immigrant.
he told us: ‘i arrived on October 25 in Dover. i was sent to a place called Manston processing centre and put with 300 other Albanians in one building.
‘They took my fingerprints. We were surrounded by guards.
Thanks to the big scandal about this centre being overcrowded, i was let out without asking anything more about who i was. i was put on a bus with blacktinted windows in the middle of the night and brought to a hotel with other Albanians.
‘if you do not return to the hotel, you are listed as a missing person. That is all. i am no longer there. i am with my relatives in the UK.’
But the lack of security regarding hotel ‘guests’ — as Border Force staff are instructed to call migrants — is not the only issue. in other hotels, some have protested over conditions.
At the holiday inn, Colchester, two visitors staged a roof-top protest last week which was recorded on video and went viral online. The men shouted their demands in Urdu — the language of Pakistan — and were brought down to safety by police.
Meanwhile, hotels in the most picturesque parts of the country now have migrant ‘guests’ as MPs complain of a lack of consultation by the Government over the take-overs.
At snowdonia’s hilton Garden inn, which overlooks an ornamental lake, a staff member on the reception desk told the Mail: ‘All reservations and events have been cancelled while we