Migrants need to be provided with safe, secure accommodation

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There is clearly an issue with the small boats’ arrivals (PA Wire)

First the Rwanda farce, now the barge story. One wonders if Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman would even be able to organise the proverbial party in a brewery.

Of course, this is no joking matter. A government that is trying to dig itself out of political trouble by playing on xenophobic, anti-immigrant feelings needs to try to start behaving ethically.

There is clearly an issue with the small boats’ arrivals. What should be done is for the government to construct, in conversation with immigrant representatives, a safe, purpose-built hostel where the incomers can live in a decent, peaceable environment until their future is determined.