Thursday, October 22, 2015

AFP - Longford: Outcry over influx of asylum seekers to English village - 1960's UK Indian migrant: "Europe is too much of a soft touch"





LONGFORD (United Kingdom) (AFP) - An influx of Channel-crossing asylum seekers into a tiny English village has become a tension point in the migration crisis as a surge of people flee war and poverty to Britain.
The migrants, many of whom were previously living in the tent camp in Calais, are bussed into the hamlet of Longford to be temporarily housed at the Heathrow Lodge and in surrounding houses used by the hotel. ...