Crazy to give hotel rooms to migrants working illegally

THE Daily Express has forced the Home Office to take action against asylum seekers working illegally while staying in taxpayer-funded hotels.

- James Walker

Minister for Border Security and Asylum Dame Angela Eagle thanked this newspaper for exposing migrants apparently working illegally as delivery couriers from a central London hotel, just two miles from the Palace of Westminster.

Our reporter, Zak Garner-Purkis, saw at least 10 men, who were clearly residents at the hotel, getting on to electric bikes with Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats-branded carriers on their backs and mobile phones attached to their handlebars. When he confronted them, he was met with hostility.

A few sped at him. Others covered their faces, suggesting they knew they had been caught red-handed.

Several who weren’t working were also caught on camera drinking and smoking marijuana which, although commonplace in our towns and cities, remains illegal. One man outside the hotel threatened to smash our reporter’s face in.

All this in a busy local neighbourhood, where youngsters pass by on their way to school and ordinary people try to go about their daily business.

YOU might be wondering where the police, security or Home Office officials were while all this was taking place. They were nowhere to be seen.