![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/i-still-have-nightmares-from-my-journey-at-sea-housing-migrants-on-barge-will-cause-trauma/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_AHP_CHP_20233.jpg&description=Asylum seeker Arian who still has nightmares from his journey on a dinghy says housing migrants on a barge will have a devastating impact and trauma An asylum seeker whose hotel was targeted by far-right rioters has warned of the devastating impact of housing migrants on a barge. Arian, who can't be identified for safety reasons, arrived on British shores in a dinghy seven months ago. He told the Mirror he still has nightmares from his journey and is terrified of going near this sea. A large part of his journey was spent walking through several countries and says he still feels "sick" when he sees trees. He was one of 35 people on the dinghy, which was carrying women and small children. After being lost for almost 13 hours at sea, Arian says many started praying because no hope was in sight. They thought were going to perish under the waves until another boat rescued them. Arian has now written to MPs in a bid to stop the Home Office from housing migrants on the Bibby Stockholm, a giant barge, at Dorset Portland's Port. It will house 500 asylum seekers, the move came less than eight hours after Parliament backed the new Illegal Migration Bill earlier this month. Arian told the Mirror: "My journey on the dinghy was horrible, we thought it was the end, we thought we were dying. I'm filled with anxiety when I think of the sea, I feel sick when I see trees. How can you put people on a barge, it will create a lot of mental and physical problems. "If you put many people who have come from different paths and from different cultures together it will create problems and possibly even violence. They will probably struggle to trust each other. To know there will be no land under your feet will be traumatic. "There must be a better solution than putting people who have already suffered on a boat. We don't have anything else to lose why would you put us through more." Arian knew his life was in danger when he changed his religion. He fled Iran after participating in protests wh){kind=link}
Asylum seeker Arian who still has nightmares from his journey on a dinghy says housing migrants on a barge will have a devastating impact and trauma
An asylum seeker whose hotel was targeted by far-right rioters has warned of the devastating impact of housing migrants on a barge.
Arian, who can’t be identified for safety reasons, arrived on British shores in a dinghy seven months ago. He told the Mirror he still has nightmares from his journey and is terrified of going near this sea. A large part of his journey was spent walking through several countries and says he still feels “sick” when he sees trees.
He was one of 35 people on the dinghy, which was carrying women and small children. After being lost for almost 13 hours at sea, Arian says many started praying because no hope was in sight. They thought were going to perish under the waves until another boat rescued them.
Arian has now written to MPs in a bid to stop the Home Office from housing migrants on the Bibby Stockholm, a giant barge, at Dorset Portland’s Port. It will house 500 asylum seekers, the move came less than eight hours after Parliament backed the new Illegal Migration Bill earlier this month.