Protesters in Canary Wharf show support for refugees

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Demonstrators in Canary Wharf held a counter protest outside a hotel, chanting “refugees are welcome here” in response to opposition rallies over asylum accommodation.   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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00:00Refugees are welcome here!

00:02Refugees are welcome here!

00:04Refugees are welcome here!

00:06Refugees are welcome here!

00:08Refugees are welcome here!

00:10No, no.

00:12No, they're not.

00:22It's an absolute lie that migrants cause problems in this country.

00:25They come over, they flee from unspeakably awful situations,

00:28quite often countries like Afghanistan and Iraq,

00:31where actually our country has been embombing them.

00:35Migrants are a net benefit to this country.

00:37We never ever hear Nigel Farage saying that.

00:40They come over, they contribute to our economy,

00:42they contribute to our economy.

00:44Quite often they're young people who don't use any of our services,

00:46they pay taxes, they want to work.

00:48They're a net benefit.

00:49I'm a GP, migrants hold up the NHS.

00:51The NHS would completely fall over if it wasn't for migrants.

00:54If you look around the hospitals, you look around GP surgeries,

00:57they're full of people from overseas who are here wanting to look after us.

01:01I have been absolutely incensed by the suggestion

01:05that migrant men are rapists lurking in bushes.

01:10Just an incredibly racist supposition

01:15that it's going to lead to terrible tragedy very soon

01:18if we don't speak up against it and call it out.

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01:23If you're not speaking up against it, call it out.

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