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The Sun
3 days ago
- Politics
- The Sun
Migrant hotel protests spread across the country with more planned today as cops clamp down on weekend of stand-offs
MIGRANT hotel protests have spread across the country as furious citizens take to the streets to challenge illegal immigration. Yesterday protests were held across the country with demonstrations outside migrant hotels held in Norwich, Leeds, Southampton and Nottinghamshire. 3 3 Further demonstrations are planned today in Epping, Wolverhampton and Cheshire as anger over the Government's continued use of migrant hotels rises. The protests have so far remained peaceful but some minor confrontations with counter protestors were seen. A group of counter protesters wearing masks reportedly broke away from the main group at the Nottinghamshire demonstration and walked into the middle of the crowd. Some were said to be carrying 'Stand Up to Racism' placards and were escorted away by police. Further demonstrations are planned today in Epping, Wolverhampton and Cheshire as public anger over the Government's use of migrant hotels rises. Police have so far arrested 18 people and charged seven in connection with the continuous protests in Epping. The migrant hotel demonstrations began after an asylum seeker was charged with sexual assault. The man is alleged to have attempted to kiss a 14-year-old girl. Protests have spread across the country with demonstrations held earlier in the week outside the four-star Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf. According to the latest Home Office data 32,000 asylum seekers are being housed in around 210 hotels across the country. A record 24,000 migrants have crossed the Channel so far in 2025. 3
Telegraph
3 days ago
- Politics
- Telegraph
Migrant hotel protests spread nationwide
Migrant hotel protests spread across Britain on Saturday as public anger grew over illegal immigration. In Norwich, hundreds of Union Flag-waving locals gathered outside the Brook Hotel to demand its closure. There were also protests in Leeds, Southampton and Nottinghamshire, with more planned for Sunday. The Nottinghamshire protest was mostly peaceful although there was a brief confrontation involving pro-migrant counter-demonstrators. Masked counter-protesters broke away from the main group – some of whom carried Stand Up to Racism placards – and walked into the middle of the crowd before being escorted away by police. Female protesters in Norwich told The Telegraph that the migrant hotel made them fear for their safety because two former residents had been jailed for sex offences in the past three months. Dan Tesfalul, an Eritrean, was sentenced to eight years for raping a woman in Norwich in April. In June, Rashid Al-Waeli, from Yemen, was sentenced to 20 months for child sex offences after he sent sexual messages to a paedophile hunter he believed was a 14-year-old boy. Sophie, a 20-year-old who declined to give her surname, said: ' It is absolutely petrifying. Go back to the early 2000s when women would walk home from the pub at night alone. 'I would not even think about doing that now. You just don't know who is hiding in a bush and it is getting more and more common. It's scary.' Louis Bunn, 26, waved a Union Flag as he said he was 'so scared' for the future of his six-year-old daughter because of the hotel. 'I am not fascist,' he said. 'I am not far-Right. I used to vote for the Labour Party. 'But please, all of us need to come together. All of us British – white, brown, black, whatever colour you are, whatever faith you are, whatever race you are – you need to come down here and protect our f---ing children, because this is getting mental.' At the protest crowds chanted 'Keir Starmer is a w----r' as cars beeped their horns as they drove by. The demonstration was led by armed forces veterans who had camped overnight outside the Brook Hotel. Ian Curry, who served in Northern Ireland and Kuwait in the Royal Marines from 1987 to 1999, said the public needed to 'wake up' and demand the closure of the hotels. ' Women and children are not safe in this country,' the 58-year-old said. 'This is what the demonstration was for. Where's all the money for these hotels coming from? It's coming from us.' Callum Creak, 23, added: 'You just hear horror story after horror story. It's despicable stuff and surely it's right to support shutting the hotels down. It should be a bipartisan issue.' Protests also took place in Leeds, West Yorkshire, on Saturday as demonstrators shouted 'back in your rubber dinghies' to asylum seekers in the Britannia Hotel. Demonstrations were also held outside the hotel on Friday night. In addition to the protests in Bournemouth, Southampton and Sutton-in-Ashfield, demonstrations are also planned on Sunday in Epping in Essex, Wolverhampton and Altrincham in Cheshire. Police have made 18 arrests and charged seven people in connection with successive demonstrations at Epping, Disorder first erupted there earlier in July after an asylum seeker was charged with allegedly attempting to kiss a 14-year-old girl.. Epping Forest district council passed a motion on Thursday to call on the Government 'to immediately and permanently close' the hotel 'for the purposes of asylum processing'. Protests also took place this week outside the four-star Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf, to which the Home Office plans to send asylum seekers. Some 32,000 asylum seekers are being housed in around 210 hotels across Britain, according to the latest Home Office data from March 2025. A record 24,000 migrants have crossed the Channel so far in 2025, up 50 per cent. A spokesman for Norfolk Constabulary said it had arrested two people on Saturday on suspicion of affray following protests at the Brook Hotel earlier in the week.
The Independent
4 days ago
- Politics
- The Independent
Florida Gov. DeSantis says deportation flights from 'Alligator Alcatraz' have begun
Deportation flights carrying detainees from the immigration detention center known as ' Alligator Alcatraz ″ to other countries began in the past few days, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday. The flights operated by the Department of Homeland Security have removed more about 100 detainees from the immigration detention center in the remote Everglades, said DeSantis, who expects that number to increase soon. Critics have condemned the facility as a cruel and inhumane while DeSantis and other Republican state officials have defended it as part of the state's aggressive push to support President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.
Telegraph
20-07-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
My part in Britain's illegal immigration crisis
Illegal immigration – and how to respond to it – has transformed British politics over the last few years. It is why Reform is leading in the polls and why Labour and the Conservatives are both facing an existential crisis. What is less often considered is how our personal spending decisions are driving that illegal immigration. It is all well and good to bemoan what is happening in the abstract, but we then spend our cash with the food delivery companies and at the barber shops and nail bars which pull undocumented, illegal workers to our shores. This reality was brought home to me last weekend when I tried to do what I have done on countless occasions – order a beer at Royal China on Baker Street in London's West End. Royal China serves perhaps London's most sublime dim sum – not the most cuisine-y or original, but certainly leagues above most of the capital's establishments. My opinion on this is not an esoteric one. At weekend lunchtimes, its entrance and the street outside is thronging with people waiting to be called when a table is ready. And, best of all, you can still have a lunch for four without drinks for around £100, something of a bargain in London. I must have eaten at this restaurant, and the others in its group, hundreds of times over nearly 30 years and have a sentimental attachment to them. When the first branch opened in Queensway in Bayswater (now closed) in the mid 1990s, I was in my early 20s and used to go on Sundays with my mother after walks in Hyde Park. She was in and out of hospital at the time with the cancer that went on to kill her. When I was running a think tank and a magazine in Marylebone, I dragged our authors there – with little regard to whether they had a fondness for Chinese food. My two teenage sons have been going for longer than they can remember. What was different this time is that I was informed that the restaurant no longer serves alcohol, but I was welcome to bring my own drink. Corkage is now charged which, on my visit, ranged from £3 for unlimited beers to £50 for a bottle of whisky. Why the change? After a raid by immigration officials, the restaurant lost its alcohol licence last August when it was found to be employing nine members of staff who were here illegally. It was also fined £360,000 by the Home Office. This was the third time the restaurant had fallen foul of the law, having already had to pay penalties totalling £110,000. All the fines were swiftly paid, and other branches of the restaurant in Canary Wharf and Harrow, as well as its more upmarket Michelin-guide listed sibling, Royal China Club, a hundred yards or so further north on Baker Street, are not accused of similar breaches and are still merrily serving alcohol. The output of council staff is not usually written to entertain, but the City of Westminster's submission on Royal China makes for quite some reading. Of their 2018 raid, the report states: 'Upon officers parking the vehicles, one worker at the rear of the restaurant ran inside and warned the other workers that immigration officers were present, officers… could see staff running through the restaurant and discarding their uniform. 'There were 28 staff members encountered in total, nine members of staff were found to be working illegally and arrested. 'During the visit the fire alarm was set off… In the commotion one Chinese female who had admitted to entering the United Kingdom illegally managed to escape. The fire brigade attended and informed the officer in charge that there had been no fire and that the fire alarm had been pressed by someone inside the restaurant.' And the record of last year's raid is similar: 'Upon officers entering the front of the premises they were asked by the staff member behind the bar to wait for the manager to arrive. 'Whilst officers were waiting, eight staff members attempted to escape from the premises via a lift at the rear loading area, another two members of staff fled via a rear staircase. Nine members of staff were arrested by the officers positioned at the rear and one male escaped. 'There were 29 staff members encountered in total, this time nine more illegal workers were found. The illegal workers consisted of six Indonesian males who had overstayed their visas, two Malaysian males who had overstayed their visas and one Chinese female who was working in breach of her visit visa conditions. The workers were arrested and escorted off the premises. 'One worker reported that they worked washing dishes 11 hours per day, six days per week and earning £400 a week, (around £6 per hour compared to the minimum wage of £11.44 per hour).' Royal China is not an obscure establishment on some backstreet. If somewhere so public-facing in so prominent a location has flagrantly abused its position, what is going on elsewhere? One must assume, after being fined a total of £470,000, it is now compliant with the law. My attempt to satiate a lunchtime craving for a beer has caused me to ask: has my fondness for dim sum, in however small a way, contributed to Britain's illegal immigration crisis?
Yahoo
19-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Border Patrol morale goes through the roof, 'dramatically' changed under Trump administration
TUCSON SECTOR, ARIZONA– Under the bright sun, Border Patrol agents Daniel Hernandez and Teresa Fast glisten with sweat as they stride along the rusted fence separating the United States and Mexico. They revealed the reality of what life is like working at the border. "A few months ago, before the election and before the previous administration, we were mostly doing processing of detained individuals," Hernandez told Fox News Digital. "That's an administrative duty that is part of our job, but it used to be a small sliver of it, [and we were] doing a large portion of that. Now it's inverse." "Now we're doing small slivers of the processing, and we're doing the bulk of patrolling duties. Most of our agents are out there patrolling." Chinese Illegal Immigrant Crossings That Surged During Biden Admin A 'National Security Concern,' Expert Warns "We're historically one of the busiest sectors," the homeland security agent said. "We're at [a] 91% reduction [rate] over last year's amounts, but that's because we're out here every single day." "If we were to take our foot off the gas and just assume the border's secure, then we would lose what we had gained. So every single day we have to invest in patrolling," he added. Read On The Fox News App According to the White House, as of April 28 of this year, illegal border crossings "are down by 95%" when compared to numbers under the Biden administration. Border Czar Tom Homan's Message To Anti-ice Protesters: 'You Want Some? Come Get Some' Previously restrained by budget cuts that impeded the completion of their duties, the border patrol agents communicated a renewed sense of faith for increasing safety for all involved. "People are less inclined to climb a fence of this magnitude," Hernandez relayed while pointing to the southern border wall. "If they do, they have to go up high, then our cameras or our agents can spot them if they go up high. So that's the advantage of having robust infrastructure on the border that buys us time to get here." "Smugglers will try anything. It's shocking that they will risk somebody's life by getting them up on a really small, handmade ladder," he continued. "[It's one] way somebody might try to defeat the border wall… and people will always try." Trump Stunned By Change In Southern Border Crossings: 'Hard To Believe' The empathy portrayed by agents when considering the human element of deportations and illegal crossings is an echoed sentiment among Tucson sector Border Patrol chief, Sean McGoffin. Fast added, "The men and the women of the patrol are really what makes it run. That's what keeps our country safer, the people who are giving up those games with their kids and their [holidays] and working night shifts – that's what keeps our country safe. That's really what it is, the men and the women of the border patrol."Original article source: Border Patrol morale goes through the roof, 'dramatically' changed under Trump administration Solve the daily Crossword
