Farage: Luxury hotels house illegal immigrants

Illegal immigrants are being housed in four-star hotels costing British taxpayers more than 4 billion euros, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage claims in his latest investigative video. The politician also found that the agencies providing services to migrants are trying to cover up the story, and he also shares his views on why, in his video.

POLITICS JULY 31. 2020 15:29

Immigrants who come to the United Kingdom illegally are housed in four-star hotels, costing taxpayers several billion pounds, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage revealed in his latest investigative video. Farage sought answer to the question whether assumptions were true that the four-star Hilton Hotel in Broomsgrove is accommodating large numbers of migrants who arrive on UK shores by the hundreds.

In the video recording of his investigation, Farage talks about interviewing several residents who have confirmed the assumption. He also found that the hotel had no vacant rooms and that no rooms were available for booking months in advance. Meanwhile, there was not a soul in the hotel lounge and not a single car was parked outside. Farage s suspicion was also bolstered by the fact that unlike all other hotels in the area that had available rooms, this one was fully „booked.”

The video also shows that when he walked in the hotel lobby, the security guards asked him to leave. The guards work for Serco Ltd., which according to Farage has recently signed a 10-year contract in the value of 2bn pounds to provide human resources for the health-, public transport and immigration authorities. He concluded that the hotel s task was to hide the illegal immigrants whose asylum applications are likely to be denied, but since they would not be deported anyway, they are likely to gradually drift towards the country s black economy.

Immigrants arriving in Germany are not always accommodated in collective centres. InfoMigrants has reported that due to the downward trend in new arrivals during the pandemic, municipalities have been accommodating a smaller number of asylum seekers in collective accommodation facilities and have increasingly been redistributing them to private municipal housing. Data by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) also reveals that the majority of these immigrants rate their housing as „satisfactory or better.”

However, migration to Europe has resumed as the pandemic situation has improved, with more than a thousand migrants making landfall in Italy in the last week alone. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio turned to the EU for help, stressing the need for an immediate response by the bloc. Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese has still not weighed in on the issue. She merely said that the situation was „indeed troubling” and announced that the government was keen on „increasing the number of weekly repatriations”.

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