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Villagers invite migration minister to visit ahead of plans to house 1,200 male asylum seekers in RAF base: 'We are not racists!'

Anna Riley
Sep 2, 2026 at 13:57
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Villagers invite migration minister to visit ahead of plans to house 1,200 male asylum seekers in RAF base: 'We are not racists!'

Residents in a tiny village of just 600 residents have invited a Labour migration minister to visit ahead of plans to house 1,200 male asylum seekers in a nearby RAF base.Residents in the North Yorkshire village of Linton-on-Ouse are calling for support from the Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum, Anna Turley MP, and say they have sent "thousands of emails and letters with absolutely no response."It comes as the Home Office proposes housing 1,200 adult male asylum seekers at the former RAF site in the centre of Linton-on-Ouse, as part of the Labour's bid to close all asylum hotels by 2029.Around 600 adult residents and 100 children live in the village and moving asylum seekers in would create a ratio of roughly five men to...

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