Hi @HomeOffice, as you’re well aware, last Friday a fire broke out at #NapierBarracks in Kent, a former military site your department repurposed as emergency accommodation for people seeking asylum.

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For many years we’ve witnessed the horrendous conditions that refugees and migrants in Europe have been subjected to, whether in northern France, at sea in the Mediterranean, stranded on the Greek islands and across the Balkans.
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For many years we’ve witnessed the horrendous conditions that refugees and migrants in Europe have been subjected to, whether in northern France, at sea in the Mediterranean, stranded on the Greek islands and across the Balkans. 2/11
For many years we’ve witnessed the horrendous conditions that refugees and migrants in Europe have been subjected to, whether in northern France, at sea in the Mediterranean, stranded on the Greek islands and across the Balkans. 2/11
For many years we’ve witnessed the horrendous conditions that refugees and migrants in Europe have been subjected to, whether in northern France, at sea in the Mediterranean, stranded on the Greek islands and across the Balkans. 2/11
For many years we’ve witnessed the horrendous conditions that refugees and migrants in Europe have been subjected to, whether in northern France, at sea in the Mediterranean, stranded on the Greek islands and across the Balkans. 2/11
Throughout, we have called on the UK Government to ensure the most vulnerable among them, including unaccompanied children, are offered sanctuary in the UK.
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Instead we've watched the UK shirk its moral and legal responsibilities by supporting increasingly hostile initiatives aimed solely at preventing people seeking safety here...
4/11 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12816615/home-office-wave-machine-migrants-channel/
Home Office ‘looked at wave machines’ to stop migrants in small boats crossing channel

THE HOME Office has “considered” creating a “wave machine” in the Channel to stop migrants in small boats making it to British shores, sources have said. Officials have been…

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12816615/home-office-wave-machine-migrants-channel/
... while cutting off existing safe routes, as we saw recently for unaccompanied children without relatives in the UK.
5/11 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/child-refugees-legal-route-home-office-b1792353.html
Britain closes the door on unaccompanied child refugees

Campaigners warn decision to end safe route for lone minors will place children at risk of trafficking

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/child-refugees-legal-route-home-office-b1792353.html
Such policies have included previously funding detention centres in Libya where there were very serious human rights concerns…
6/11 https://msf.exposure.co/human-suffering 
HUMAN SUFFERING

For more than a year, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing medical care to refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants held inside Tripoli detention centres in conditions that are neither...

https://msf.exposure.co/human-suffering
... and funding and training the Libyan coastguard to intercept people tyring to flee Libya and returning them there, a country that we know is extremely unsafe, especially for migrants.
7/11 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-maritime-personnel-train-the-libyan-coastguard
UK maritime personnel train the Libyan Coastguard

UK Armed Forces personnel will tomorrow begin operations to help train the Libyan Coastguard, the Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has confirmed.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-maritime-personnel-train-the-libyan-coastguard
What we're currently witnessing is nothing more than an extension of this policy of deterrence on UK soil & we know from experience across Europe, particularly Moria camp in Greece, forcing people to live in such awful conditions can end in disaster.
8/11 https://msf.org.uk/article/moria-fire-12000-people-streets-infamous-greek-island-camp-destroyed
Moria fire: 12,000 people on the streets

Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos has been completely destroyed by fire

https://msf.org.uk/article/moria-fire-12000-people-streets-infamous-greek-island-camp-destroyed
And that’s before considering that we're currently battling a global pandemic! We've responded to outbreaks all over the world & know that forcing people to live in cramped, unsanitary & “prison like” conditions (according to dep High Court judge @CliveLawyer) is dangerous.
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"The court heard evidence about the unsafe and unsanitary conditions at the barracks, with 14 men sharing a room, lack of heating, poor sanitary conditions and the impact of a recent serious fire" 👇
10/11 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/03/asylum-seeker-cannot-remain-at-kent-army-barracks-court-says
Asylum seeker cannot remain at Kent army barracks, court says

High court ruling opens door for more people to be transferred out of ‘wholly unsuitable’ Napier barracks

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/03/asylum-seeker-cannot-remain-at-kent-army-barracks-court-says
Everyone should be treated with dignity, provided access to medical care and able to live in conditions that are safe! #NapierBarracks
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