Pro-migrant Stand Up To Racism group mount opposition to housing asylum seekers on former MoD site

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A pro-migrant campaign group in Oxfordshire has launched a petition opposing Government plans to house asylum seekers on a former Ministry of Defence (MoD) site.The Oxford branch of Stand Up To Racism is calling on locals and community groups across the county to oppose the proposal, which is to house 1,250 asylum seekers in Bicester.It argues the plans risk turning the town into a target for far-Right demonstrations and an attempt from the Government to appear tough on immigration in response to Reform UK's rising popularity.

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Ian McKendrick, vice-chair of the group, said the plan was "inhumane" and amounted to "a desperate bid to win votes and to divert people's anger away from the government's failure to address the decades of cuts and austerity the majority of people have had to endure".

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