Home Office dockside migrant reception centre grows from a single office to sprawling mass of cabins (and still buckles under the strain)
More than 10,000 migrants have arrived in UK so far this year, more than 2020 A record-breaking 22,000 arrivals are expected by the end of the year Despite ballooning in side, the Home Office's reception centre is still buckling The reception centre at Tug Haven, where migrants are taken for an initial assessment after crossing the Channel, has space for about 380 people By Jonathan Bucks For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 22:00 BST, 7 August 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 7 August 2021
Sprawling across the Dover Docks, the Home Office’s migrant reception centre has ballooned in size in recent months under the strain of ever-growing numbers of arrivals.
Previously a simple brick building at the end of a jetty, the vast complex now includes an enormous marquee and at least ten cabins to handle the hundreds of migrants picked up by the Border Force every day while crossing the Channel.
More than 10,000 migrants have arrived in the UK so far this year – with a record-breaking 22,000 arrivals expected by the end of the year.
Our pictures, taken last Thursday when 475 migrants arrived in the UK, show some of them being processed by Home Office officials while a coach and bus wait to whisk them away.
Growing crisis: Dover's migrant reception centre has expanded from a single building to include a marquee and several cabins (pictured last week)
The reception centre at Tug Haven, where
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