LONDON: British Parliament members said they found “shocking conditions” at the facility for people who arrived in England with small ships, with babies and small children among tens packed into a small room in the port city of Dover.
The Parliamentary House Affairs Committee said in a letter released on Friday that members found 56 people crammed into the waiting room at the Kent Intake Unit when they visited this week.
Chairman, Yvette Cooper, a member of the Labor Labor Party Parliament, said that the condition of crowded, creating a “clear risk” of the Covid-19 outbreak.
“The room is clearly not feasible to hold many people,” Cooper said in a letter to the secretary of the house, Priti Patel, Minister of British Immigration.
“Most people sit or lie on a thin mattress and they cover almost the entire floor including the halls between the chairs.” Share this narrow condition is many women with very young babies and children, along with a large number of adolescents and adults.
, “Cooper said some people were stored in the room up to 48 hours before being sent to accommodation, although the law said they should not be held there for more than a day.
The others spent up to 10 days in” basically office space “while waiting for the next trip.
The home office said “The number of unacceptable people made the life threatening trip across the channel in the hand of the criminal trafficking gang.
“” We bring the welfare of migrants very seriously and despite this pressure.
We have improved our facilities, regulating additional staff and works to process people as fast and safe as possible, “he said in a statement to the BBC.
The British and French governments have worked for years, without much success, to stop the people who try to reach out England from North France, both by storing trucks or on ferries, or on small vessels organized by smuggling of almost 8,500 people have arrived in the UK by crossing the channel by crossing the channel in a small boat so far this year, almost the same total for All 2020.
Some people have died trying to travel.
The journey has been confiscated by anti-immigration commentators such as former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who has criticized the British Sea rescue service, the Lifeboat Royal National Institution, for picking up migrants from the boat on the channel and carrying it to land.
Rni, a charity, maintain Humanitarian work and said contributions rose from an average of 7,000 pounds ($ 9,800) to 200,000 pounds ($ 280,000) in one day after criticism.