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Security guards ready to open the gate to the first taxi arrives of the new intake of asylum seekers arrive at Napier barracks on the 9th of April 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Despite many criticisms of the site including a damning report from the HM Inspectorate of Prisons declaring the camp filthy and impoverished and Public Health England declaring the accommodation unsuitable durning a pandemic the Home Office continues to place vulnerable people in the former military barracks. (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)

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Contained in galleries: Refugees back in Napier Barracks April 2021

Security guards ready to open the gate to the first taxi arrives of the new intake of asylum seekers arrive at Napier barracks on the 9th of April 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Despite many criticisms of the site including a damning report from the HM Inspectorate of Prisons declaring the camp filthy and impoverished and Public Health England declaring the accommodation unsuitable durning a pandemic the Home Office continues to place vulnerable people in the former military barracks. (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)