Newly published figures show the number of people detained in ‘short term’ immigration holding facilities almost tripled in the last year. According to an official dataset, the amount increased to 2,987 in the year ending September 2022 – a rise of 231%.
across the English Channel.
Manston has since been emptied with those held at the site, where detainees were shown in makeshift conditions, being moved elsewhere. Steven Shyaka, lived experience campaigns coordinator at Detention Action, said: ‘Instead of addressing structural problems in the immigration system, the government is increasingly relying on indefinite immigration detention.
‘These are people who have fled war, rape and torture, yet the government is trying to make their lives unbearable. One of the solutions is to make safe, legal routes to enable people to get to Britain.’ The data has been released as the government continues in its efforts to stem the record number of small boat crossings across the Channel.is currently subject to a joint legal challenge by campaign groups in the High Court.
A Home Office spokesperson said: ‘We are committed to the removal of foreign criminals and those with no right to be in the UK.‘Since the pandemic, an increasing proportion of those entering detention have been small boat arrivals who have been detained in order to confirm their identity and register their asylum claim.
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