Crowborough residents protest about camp for illegal immigrants.

 

I recently watched a TV program on GB News about illegal migrants who have been sent to an army camp in Crowborough, in East Sussex. The Home Office appointed ‘Clearsprings Ready Homes’ owned by multi- millionaire, Graham King, to run the Crowborough Army Camp which is now being used to accommodate asylum seekers and illegal migrants.

Local residents who complain that they weren't consulted about the scheme to house illegal migrants, are now saying that house prices in the area have plummeted and they're having difficulty selling their homes. Although King doesn't own the army camp, but runs it, he's made himself a fortune out of public contracts to house illegal migrants. Some of the refugees compared the army camp to a prison but according to GB News, they're free to come and go as they please and can leave the camp for up to seven days before returning. Many of these illegal migrants have travelled to Britain without valid documents and very little is known about them.

Residents living in the area, say that the migrants are often seen around the town and golf course, drinking cans of beer. Some female residents complained that they no longer feel safe walking in more remote parts of the town like Ashdown Forest. It seems that the camp provides transport so the illegal migrants can visit Crawley where they are less conspicuous.

GB News presenter, Patrick Christys, who was in Crowborough talking to residents, never mentioned Graham King, or Clearsprings Ready Homes, or the vast amounts of taxpayers' money that is going into the pockets of people like Graham King and Serco.

Jalil Ahmad, a young Afghan refugee, who spoke fairly good English, who was interviewed by GB News, told Christys that he'd been told that if he stayed at the camp for three or four months, he would be given accommodation in a House of Multiple Occupation, (HMO). He said that he'd left Afghanistan because it wasn't a good country to live in under the Taliban and that he thought that Britain offered him more opportunities as an MMA professional fighter, with UFC aspirations. Young Jalil, who was probably far too honest for his own good, did say that the migrants living in the camp generally got on with one another because they were all in the same boat, but he also compared the situation to living in a jungle.