‘Guantánamo-on-Ouse’ plans to place 1,500 asylum seekers in Yorkshire village
by Mark Brown North of England correspondent from on (#5YG5J)
Decision decried as morally bankrupt ploy to reduce our obligations to the most desperate people'
It has been described as Guantanamo-on-Ouse: a giant one-stop reception centre for asylum seekers due to open within weeks slap bang in the middle of a quiet, bucolic North Yorkshire village.
When we first heard about it they said 500 people and we thought that's just about manageable," said 67-year-old Taff Morgan. Then last night we heard 1,500 and that might not be the maximum. It depends on how many they can fit in."
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