The bishop of Leicester has voiced concerns about escalating tensions in the asylum system after a number of community protests were staged outside hotels.
About 30 hotels are being used to house asylum seekers in the East Midlands as the government deals with a huge backlog of cases.
Bishop Martyn Snow told concerned local residents: “These are human beings with feelings, with a desire for not just safety but to contribute to society”
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LeicesterMercury reports: The Yew Lodge Hotel in Kegworth is among the East Midlands hotels being used by the Home Office to house asylum seekers. Some villagers are angry that a place with so few facilities has been chosen for 250 refugees from around the world, and there is also anger that some members of staff have lost their jobs due to the hotel being shut to the public.
On Monday night a group of more than 100 protesters were outside the hotel with placards, chanting and shouting. They also marched on the centre of the village and at one point the road was blocked by Leicestershire Police officers to contain the rally, and one man was arrested for blocking the road.
In comments to the BBC, the bishop said of the asylum seekers in the hotels: “These are human beings with feelings, with a desire for not just safety but to contribute to society. I understand people’s concerns but I hope that through encounters – actually meeting those people – they’ll understand that often these people are very fragile and vulnerable and they are here for very good reasons in most cases.
“I think we’ve become a very polarised society in many ways and it’s so easy to forget that what we’re talking about here is not just an issue. We’re talking about people.”
Monday night’s protest was also attended by about a dozen members of Derbyshire Refugee Solidarity, who formed a counter-protest against the demonstrators. Steve Cook, a representative of the grassroots charity, agrees that the government is not doing the right thing by moving people into a “relatively small” village.
But the group is urging residents to remember the asylum seekers are “not to blame”. Mr Cook said: “We want to support those who may be moving into this hotel because they’ve already suffered a number of traumas on the way to getting here.
“But also, it’s good to talk to the residents who feel very strongly about all of these people moving into Kegworth. And of course, it’s not right that the government is moving so many people into a relatively small village.
“What the government should be doing is dealing with asylum claims quickly, processing them quickly and making sure that those who have a genuine claim for asylum can then get their national insurance number, find a job, start paying taxes and contribute to the British economy, rather than putting them up in a hotel – which is costing them £7 million a day nationally – in Kegworth.”
Niamh Harris
Yes; Human beings illegally entering the USA to sell sex slaves, smuggle drugs, steal and rob, get free everything and infest every city to do criminal activity without prosecution. Those humans with evil feelings and thoughts.
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If history is any bellwether then these migrants main contrition to society will be their rape gangs…
Does the Bishop think his flock are people too ? Or are they just fillers of his church fund plate as he passes it down the pew ?
The churches real and sway as shaken by a horrific quaking … and in the end the sheep will find they never PROTESTED enough and thus never left the anti-Christ … the churches are her daughters and her fruit is their fruit.
That’s right Dump em in a sh**hole far away from the ruling class. Cause they care. Haha Community values Act local, think global, from little things big things grow All that snake in the grass crap. The Bishop could always put some feeling types up in his Palace.?
The basic & primary purpose of a government is to protect its citizens, not sacrifice them for some enemy political agenda. It is frightening how many world governments have turned on their own citizens to support the institution of a world dictatorship that will enslave them.
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