Gavin Grey: Asylum seeker spending down, but not down enough

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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“It’s down, but it’s down not very much.” says UK Correspondent Gavin Grey in this morning’s immigration discussion with Ryan Bridge.

The UK Government is spending $4.4billion on hotel bills housing migrants. Although this is down from $4.6billion the previous year, Grey says it isn’t enough.

Money to fund this is coming from the overseas development fund, a system that Grey calls, “unsustainable.”

Arrests for immigrants working illegally in the UK have increased, but Grey says the hotel bill continues to get longer with no end in sight.

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