Lisa Holland reports from Dorset, where a group of asylum seekers are angry about the years they have spent being moved around by the Home Office.
Between them, this group of around half a dozen men has just been relocated to the new accommodation where we meet.
They've been moved from two hotels in east London where there were stand-offs with the Home Office over some asylum seekers' refusals to leave the capital. They say they didn't want to come to the new accommodation because it's an hour and a half away and they had"settled" in London.it's hired a barge where it will house 500 asylum seekers off the Dorset coast.It says the move will start to reduce hotel costs of £6m a day.The man in the orange top is called Sadam and is from Sudan. I ask him what he will do if he is asked to move again.
"No, I can't move," he says."I will make protest. All the people here, I invite them to make protest in front of [the] hotel."
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