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The Manston asylum centre in Kent was supposed to swiftly process people who arrive in the UK on small boats. Instead, men, women and children who made the journey across the Channel say they were stuck inside for weeks in overcrowded conditions.
Diane Taylor, who has reported extensively on the centre, tells Nosheen Iqbal how the crisis, and what life was like for migrants living in squalid conditions. The home secretary, however, has said the unprecedented numbers of people crossing the Channel has broken the system.
Yet journalist and author Daniel Trilling, points out that this is far from the first time a home secretary has complained about a system overseen by their own department. So why is the Home Office so often in the firing line and what would it take to have a fair, effective and compassionate migration system?
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