By Catherine Nicholls and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — The controversy over the transfer of asylum-seekers onto a barge moored in southern England deepened on Monday, when public health experts warned of the possible risk of infection in living conditions that campaigners branded as inhumane.
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A small group of asylum-seekers has been moved onto a barge moored in southern England as the U.K. government tries to cut the cost of sheltering people seeking protection in the country, British news media reported Monday.
By Catherine Nicholls and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — The controversy over the transfer of asylum-seekers onto a barge moored in southern England deepened on Monday, when public health experts warned of the possible risk of infection in living conditions that campaigners branded as inhumane.
To cut the cost of sheltering United Kingdom's rising number of migrants seeking protection in the country, the government is transferring its asylum-seekers onto a barge in England.
On Monday, the British government moved a group of them onto a barge docked at the coast, a controversial step that it argues will save money but that critics say is the latest example of a steady hardening of migration policy under the governing Conservative Party.
A small group of asylum-seekers was moved Monday onto a barge moored in southern England as the U.K. government tries to cut the cost of sheltering people seeking protection in the country.
