Reform councillor warns that 200,000 migrants could be living in Britain at taxpayer expense

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Reform UK Councillor David Buckley has accused Labour of "massaging the figures" when it comes to asylum claims, after figures appeared to confirm that more than 50,000 rejected asylum seekers remain in Britain's hotels.According to official Government data, 50,976 asylum appeals remain unresolved as of March this year, with more than 30,000 of those people remaining in asylum hotels.FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00David, is this an issue in your patch?

00:03Well, it has been an issue in our patch.

00:05We actually had the asylum seekers removed from our hotel about two weeks ago.

00:10But that's on the second time they've been in our Dachet Hotel over the last three years,

00:16previously by the Conservative leadership and now by the Labour leadership.

00:21But yes, it is something that obviously has affected us and may affect us again.

00:25A lot of people will be shocked to hear that someone can have their asylum application rejected

00:34and still be living at the taxpayer's expense for months, sometimes even years.

00:42And this despite our very high acceptance rate of people in the first place,

00:46even those who are rejected stay here.

00:48Well, I think at that point, I remember statistics in 2023 of 150,000 asylum seekers waiting for processing.

00:59And they were only processing at 15,000 a year then.

01:02And that would have taken 10 years to process the people that were already here,

01:06let alone the number who have come since that time.

01:09So I think there's a lot of massaging the figures by the government.

01:12I do not believe the figures, the 50,000 on appeal, plus at least 150,000 that have not even gone through the process yet.

01:20So you're looking at over 200,000 people, maybe a lot more, who are living at taxpayer's expense.

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