Tories say more asylum seekers in hotels under Labour

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Shadow Crime Minister Matt Vickers criticises the government’s handling of asylum seekers, claiming hotel use has risen and returns have fallen since Labour took office.   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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00:00The number of people who were in hotels was falling under the last government. It was down

00:0447%. If we'd carried on on that trajectory, doing what we were doing, there would be

00:11no asylum hotels now. It would have been solved. This problem wouldn't be here anymore. The reality

00:17is record numbers now arriving in the country illegally. Not a few more, but actually nearly

00:2250% more people arriving in this country illegally, breaking in. More people in hotels than there were

00:29and of those people who break into this country and arrive illegally, less of them are being

00:34sent back. Just 5%. We can't go on like this. People need to know that if they get in the

00:39boats to come to this country, they will be detained and they will be deported, sent back

00:44to wherever they come from or a safe third country.

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