Eagle: All asylum hotels to close by 2029

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Border Security Minister Dame Angela Eagle urges calm over protests and says hotel use is falling as asylum processing speeds up.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I understand people's frustration and everyone has a right to protest peacefully in a democracy

00:06and it's their right to do that. We just have to make certain that none of that actually spirals

00:14into something worse like violence and so I would say it's our intention to close all asylum hotels

00:24by the end of this parliament. We are working on that by making the system we inherited which was

00:29had huge backlogs and wasn't really working work again which is why we've doubled the amount of

00:37asylum processing that we've done. We're making people move through the system now. There are 6,000

00:43fewer people in hotels in the first three months of this year than there were in the last three

00:48months of last year so we are making progress. It's too slow for some people but progress it is.

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