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IMMIGRATION detainees who earn as little as £1 an hour are asking the Court of Appeal in London to intervene over the low-pay regime.
Their lawyers say that the Home Office must pay detainees more for cleaning and maintenance work they perform while held in immigration removal centres.
New figures obtained by the Morning Star show that detainees worked a total of 37,483 hours in March 2019 but were paid just £39,216. If they had received the minimum wage of £7.83 an hour then they would have earned an extra £254,275.
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
