According to Breitbart, “At least 100 of the 400 migrant men housed in the Napier Barracks in Folkestone are believed to have contracted the coronavirus.”
Illegal migrants continue to enter Britain via the English Channel, despite a lip-service agreement to curb this migration, and despite the coronavirus lockdown that has increasingly angered the citizenry. Now there is a coronavirus outbreak in a makeshift migrant camp in Kent, amid open protests by entitled migrants about the accommodations and hunger strikes. And they do little to keep the area clean. These entitled migrants illegally enter their country of choice with expectations that taxpayers will pay for them. They are most attracted to Western Europe because of its generous welfare benefits.
One wonders what the UK government is expecting the consequences of its negligence to be. Open migration from Africa and the Middle East has been catastrophic. One need only look at other migrant camps in the EU (see HERE , HERE, HERE and HERE), no-go zones, rampant crime in London that have been linked to Muslim migration, and the country’s highly publicized Muslim rape gangs.
Despite Brexit, which was sparked by out-of-control immigration, the UK remains a failure in handling its immigration issues, particularly its illegal Muslim migrant problem. This is destined to worsen under the weak-willed Johnson government that is operating in defiance of its own people.
“Priti Patel wants to keep housing asylum seekers at disused barracks,” by Katie Weston, Mailonline, January 28, 2021:
Priti Patel wants to keep housing asylum seekers at a disused Kent Army barracks despite calls to shut it down amid concerns of a ‘major health crisis’.
A coronavirus outbreak has hit the military site in Folkestone, Kent, where hundreds of people are living behind the barbed wire-topped fences.
There have been reports of suicide attempts in the Army barracks and many residents went on hunger strike in protest of the conditions which reportedly include 34 people sharing one shower.
Many of those living at Napier Barracks crossed to the UK from France aboard small boats. Charities are calling for the site to be shut as a result of the ‘entirely predictable’ Covid-19 crisis as they say social distancing is impossible.
Emergency use of the site was secured for six months in September, and the Home Office is considering extending its use beyond that time period.
Sile Reynolds, senior policy advisor at Freedom from Torture, called on the Government to shut the barracks to save lives.
She said: ‘Plans to extend the use of the barracks to accommodate asylum seekers in the middle of this pandemic is another example of this government’s reckless disregard for people’s lives.
‘A major health crisis is unfolding in these ex-military camps. It is a crisis that was entirely predictable. But the warnings of medical professionals and front line charities have fallen on deaf ears.
‘The horror taking place inside the camps cannot be overstated – they are unsanitary and not COVID secure. It is impossible for people trapped there to maintain any social distance.
‘The government’s own evidence shows that those with BAME heritage and low immune systems are at greater risk of this virus than others.
Many people in the camps are vulnerable, having fled torture and persecution, and fall in to this category. This must change. Our message to this government is clear: empty the barracks, close these camps, save lives.’
Local charity Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN) also called for the immediate closure of Napier Barracks, saying residents are ‘sitting ducks’ for Covid-19.
But immigration minister Chris Philp has insisted that conditions are ‘safe, suitable (and) Covid-compliant’….
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Here in the U.S. a large group of Nicaraguans were being interviewed at the border and none of them were wearing masks. Did the interviewer from the corporate media mention this? Of course not, that would be flaunting his white privilege.
william carr says
Where exactly do those do gooders think the illegal migrants should go? To NHS overcrowded hospitals perhaps?
“Many people in the camps are vulnerable, having fled torture and persecution”
I would say that many of them have heard the streets of UK are paved with Welfare cheques
and expected a cushy welcome. As for reckless disregard for lives; the migrants who try to cross the Channel (a dangerous waterway) have shown reckless disregard for their own lives, having already left a safe country and passing through many countries to get to the French coast in the first place
Sylvia Drummond says
Close the camps, save lives. Then where do they go?
Keith O says
Put barbed wire around the camps and mine fields to keep the criminals in.
If they bitch and complain, put them on the first plane back to where they came from.
gravenimage says
UK: Home Secretary wants to keep housing illegal migrants in camp amid COVID outbreak
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After all, nothing is more impoirtant than bringing in hordes of Muslim invaders…
Kathleen Walsh says
They chose to enter the UK illegally. They are economic migrants and for all we know fleeing ISIS. They are being housed and fed three times a day in ex military camps.
If it was good enough for our Soldiers it’s more than good enough for them.
The gravy train alas has stopped at the station. The cushy hotels are closed.
You chose to come to the UK. Perhaps you should now choose to return too France.