Leeds reflects on hotels being used to accommodate asylum seekers

How do you feel about hotels being used for asylum seeker accommodation?

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00:00I think the essential thing is that this country has always been a country of immigration.

00:06As a caring professional, I have sympathy for people who feel the need to leave a country

00:11and drag their children halfway across the world to look for a better life.

00:16I think there probably is issues, I'm sure there's issues that need dealing with involving the government,

00:22but I think on a human level you have to be compassionate to fellow humans.

00:26The protesters are maybe out of line, but why aren't we looking at our homeless that are on the streets in this country?

00:34In terms of accommodation and the hotels, I think we're in a really tricky situation in this country

00:41where we don't have enough accommodation in general.

00:44We've got too many people who oppose building houses, we've got too little skill.

00:49I think if we were much more forward thinking and we had planned for this years ago,

00:56we would have better infrastructure, better housing.