by Albanian men missing in hotels from the Manston migrant center will already have fled, high-level government sources admitted.
Suella Braverman, the besieged Interior Minister, has ordered the removal of thousands of migrants from Manston, a former RAF air base in Kent, after it became dangerously overcrowded.
But senior sources said the Albanians brought to the hotels will already have disappeared to join criminal gangs or work illegally.
The source said ministers and officials resigned themselves to the disappearance of Albanians in the UK, with almost no prospect of deporting them. The source said there were no security barriers in place to prevent migrants from simply fleeing.
The source said that while real asylum seekers from war-torn countries like Syria or brutal regimes like Iran would stay in hotels, where they receive full board and food, most Albanians had come to the UK mainly for work with criminals. gangs or illegally.
“Many Albanians disappear”
The senior source, echoing Ms. Braverman’s admission that the asylum system is “broken,” said: “They are not detained in hotels. Once asylum seekers are placed in hotels, they cannot be detained. We can only detain people initially or as a precursor to their forced removal.
“Many Albanians disappear. They come here to work on cannabis farms or gangs, so they disappear pretty quickly.
“Iraqis, Syrians and others from war-torn countries tend to stay in hotels: they like free accommodation. Albanians are different because they are here to work illegally in criminal gangs, so they have a high propensity for scarper.
“Some of them settled in Manston hotels will already have been scarred. It is easier to escape from a hotel than from an air base in the middle of nowhere. “
At least one coach loaded with migrants from Manston was taken to a newly built hotel near Heathrow Airport.
The hotel offers more than 500 rooms, which have now been booked by the Home Office in a hasty attempt to reduce numbers in Manston.
The facility is expected to accommodate no more than 1,600 migrants for up to 48 hours, but had reached a population of 4,000 by the weekend. Some migrants had been there for at least a month, many of whom slept on hard floors in tents. The property also accommodates children with their families.
In contrast, the Heathrow hotel boasts “ultra chic” rooms and “exquisite wellness”. Rooms can cost up to £ 241 a night, but are not currently available to the public.
A group of young people who had arrived by coach from Kent were lined up outside the doors, some wearing only T-shirts against the rushing wind.
A 20-year-old young man from Iraq said up to 2,000 people were housed in the hotel. The staff asked the Telegraph to leave the premises and also instructed asylum seekers staying there not to speak to the media.
“There are new buses every day and the last bus was at this time,” he said. Those arriving were from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Morocco and Algeria, she said.
He had arrived two days ago and had previously stayed in Manston.
“We were in Dover,” he said. “The Dover army camp was like a prison. We can’t smoke, we can’t go out, we can’t go to a restaurant. I was there 21 days.”
“I can’t call my family, just when I remember the number in my head. It wasn’t okay, but here is better.”
He had a brother in Birmingham and intended to live and work with him. But she had to tell the staff if she wanted to visit family and friends and she had to return within two days.
He had lived in Germany for eight years and traveled to France before paying traffickers to board a rubber dinghy with 40 other migrants.
Two other young men, ages 24 and 19, had also traveled from Iraq and had previously been to Manston.
They complained that there was no doctor, no food and difficulty sleeping, along with many people with mental health problems. They added that 160 people had slept in a tent at the airport.
They said that conditions in the hotel were better and that new groups of asylum seekers arrived every night.
A young man leaving the hotel was Albanian but said he could not speak English. Others who left the gates said they came from Kurdistan.
Hotel staff described the hotel as “privately owned” and said reporters could not stay on site.
A young man staying at the hotel told the BBC that people at the Manston processing site had been treated like “animals”. He described being forced to sleep on the floor, prevented from going to the bathroom, going out or exercising.
