The British government takes the decision: This is where the Albanian immigrants will be accommodated!

2023-04-05 19:44:09Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The British government takes the decision: This is where the Albanian immigrants

The UK government contracted its first accommodation ship to house asylum seekers, including Albanians, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pursues plans to reduce the number of people crossing the English Channel illegally.

The Bibby Stockholm ship can accommodate 500 migrants and will be " significantly " cheaper than hotels, the Home Office said in an emailed statement on Wednesday. She will be docked in Portland, southwest England.

Faced with tens of thousands of asylum claims to be processed, the government is struggling to meet the cost to taxpayers of housing them in hotels, which it puts at around £7m ($8.7m) a day.

"Government officials pointed to statistics suggesting that the number of Albanians trying to cross the Channel had fallen in the first three months of 2023. This followed an agreement reached in December with the Albanian government to facilitate returns," the report said. a Bloomberg article


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