![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/suella-braverman-says-she-will-fix-broken-asylum-system/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/127461400_d7e94dbbefd73bf19aa2eb316291bc5e231aea1b203_341_2795_15732000x1125.jpg&description=Media caption, Braverman: "There are some people who would prefer to be rid of me... let them try."Home Secretary Suella Braverman has pledged to fix the UK's "broken" asylum system and defied opposition calls for her resignation.During a heated debate at Westminster, Ms Braverman denied she blocked the use of hotels to ease overcrowding at the Manston migrant processing centre.She sparked some MP's fury when she said her policies were designed to repel an "invasion" on the south coast. Labour condemned her remarks and accused her of being unfit for office.Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said decision-making at the Home Office had "collapsed" on Ms Braverman's watch and asked how "anyone is supposed to have confidence" in her.Some 4,000 people are being held at the Manston processing centre, which is only designed to accommodate 1,600 people on a temporary basis.Hundreds of people were moved there on Sunday after a man threw firebombs at a separate immigration centre in Dover. He was later found dead nearby.Manston opened as a processing centre in February 2022, for the growing number of migrants reaching the UK in small boats and people are only supposed to be kept there for 24 hours for security and identity checks. They are then meant to be moved into the Home Office's asylum accommodation system, which often means a hotel.When the chief inspector of immigration visited last week, he found some people had been there for over a month. That included one family who had been there for 32 days, sleeping on mats in a marquee.Ms Braverman has also been accused of ignoring legal advice to procure more accommodation for migrants amid warnings that the centre was in danger of becoming dangerously overcrowded. Sources have told the BBC the home secretary was warned by officials the government was acting outside the law by failing to provide alternative accommodation.In a bullish statement in Parliament, Ms Braverman said "I have never ignored legal advice" by keeping pe){kind=link}
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Braverman: “There are some people who would prefer to be rid of me… let them try.”
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has pledged to fix the UK’s “broken” asylum system and defied opposition calls for her resignation.
During a heated debate at Westminster, Ms Braverman denied she blocked the use of hotels to ease overcrowding at the Manston migrant processing centre.
She sparked some MP’s fury when she said her policies were designed to repel an “invasion” on the south coast.