The Home Office has said it is working to close hotels and “restore order” after a council unanimously voted to urge the Government to shut a hotel housing asylum seekers following a series of protests around the site.

The Home Office has launched an investigation into asylum seeker payment cards after data showed some had been misused for gambling. A Freedom of Information request made by PoliticsHome revealed more than 6,500 payments in gambling settings were attempted by asylum seekers in the past year.

New Artificial intelligence technology will be used to assess disputed ages of asylum seekers who say they are children, the Home Office has said. The facial age estimation system will be rolled out on an initial trial basis.

THE dad of a girl allegedly sexually assaulted by an asylum seeker wants the hotel where the migrant stayed to be shut down, a councillor has claimed. This week Epping in Essex, and later Canary

The location of hotels housing asylum seekers will be shared with food delivery companies as part of a crackdown on illegal working, the Home Office has said.

Asylum seekers have been found to be using government-issued debit cards to fund their gambling habits in betting shops and casinos across the UK.

The Home Office said the plan will help delivery apps uncover abuse on their platforms and quickly suspend accounts but immigration lawyers argue it will be ‘ineffective’ and easy to bypass