Homeless migrants have told about their disbelief that they were simply allowed to set up a new camp in the center of Manchester City after they had finally turned off the authorities from their previous tent village.
Dozens of mainly African men, who have been living in tents for a maximum of a year while they claim asylum in Great Britain, were finally deported by bailiffs from the historic St. Peter's Square on Monday morning after a legal battle.
But instead of spreading as the authorities had hoped, most simply gained new tents and only moved 150 meters away to create a new sluming village outside the Midland Hotel.
And then even the migrants themselves – many of whom came to small boats in the UK – were surprised at how easy it had been for them to do this after the time -consuming and expensive legal process needed to move them in the first place.
Last night, migrant repeated after the migrant repeated the same feelings for MailOnline: that our immigration system is 'crazy', 'crazy' or 'incredible'.
Hisham Fitir was typically, 35, who said he was coming to the United Kingdom to flee in his native Sudan.
He said to MailOnline: “They must have spent a lot of time and money to move – and we just came here.”
Fitir continued: 'It is strange that we have just moved from the square to this hotel. It seems that you have a crazy justice and immigration system in this country. '
Homeless people were deported from the 'Red-Tent Camp' on St Peter's Square, Manchester
The council tore a homeless camp in the city center with bailiffs who threw tents in a bin truck in a Dawn Crackdown
Employees 'correct' on the tents and asked the homeless there to leave
Omar Osman, 47, who said he had fled Eritrea at war, agreed and said: “The immigration system here seems so crazy and confusing.
'It is a joke that we have moved from the square to another tent camp. It looks like madness. '
And Haku Nudear, 25, who also comes from Sudan and came to Groot -Britain through small boat, brought in with the same sentiment and said, “It's crazy for us to be moved and then come back here.”
Local employees and residents were divided between the fate of the migrants.
Cleaner Emma Wilkinson, 52, said: 'Some of them are a bit of nuisance and it seems that we cannot remove them.
'Now they are at the Midland instead of the Central Library. It's a joke. '
Another local, who did not want to be called, said: 'They claim to be destined, but then I have seen them go to cafés and connect four smartphones to charge. “They seem to have money.”
But office employee Jackie Hughes, 45, was more supportive and said: 'I saw that they were on the road. We must not treat such refugees.
“We have to take better care of them and give them a warmer welcome.”
It is thought that the camp residents include both homeless people who have won refugee status and those who are still trying to claim asylum.
In addition to surprised by the ease with which they had circumvented the official attempt to stop camping in Manchester – the group all wanted to point out the filthy circumstances in which they live and the impossibility to improve them.
At 6.45 am those who are known in the group of tents were stationed as the 'Red-Tent Camp' outside the town hall in St. Peter's Square to continue
People were given plastic bags for their possessions, while bailiffs knocked on 'tents and said they had to leave while raining in the city
This was the scene in which the tents were still in place on 14 February
The Council said 'with many who are still refusing to leave, even though it was repeatedly asked to do this – and other options that are exhausted – securing this order was a necessary step'
Mr. Fitir said: 'I just want to find somewhere to live, but they told me that I have to rent somewhere and that I can't afford it.
'I just want to get a job and make a better life for myself. I can't go home.
'There was fighting in my home country and I fear that I will be shot. I was arrested by the paramilitary in Sudan, so it is not safe for me there.
'I didn't feel unsafe here in Manchester, just very cold. I have been in the camp since October. '
Father-of-four Mr Haku continued: 'I don't know what will happen to us.
“But it's not safe in my country. I was in the capital Khartoem and there were many fights and gunshots. I had to leave, so I came on a boat. '
Former businessman Mr Osman, continued: 'I have been to this country for seven years, so I know how the system works in your country.
'I knew we would continue, so I got out of the camp a few days ago.
“I was in Italy but came to this country and I was placed in a place in Oidham.
“But after a few years I was moved. I was in Blackburn last year, but I was kicked out so ended up in Manchester.
'The council has said that we will not come from Manchester, so we cannot get housing.
“They told us to rent a house. But I want to be set up in a hotel so that I can find myself out.
The Manchester city council had finally received a legal permission from a court to dismantle the camp on 12 February, which was set up almost a year ago, on St Peter's Square and withdrew on Monday morning.
In order to be able to legally expand the tent residents, the council had to protect a 'possession order' against people who live in tents on the Peter's square next to the Stadshals, which means they are effectively erased.
The collection of tents, which became locally known as the 'Red Tent Camp', initially jumped as a protest in the spring of last spring.
The same stretch of street has now been made available from the settlement, as shown yesterday – only for some of the set -out migrants to restart the camp just a few meters away
The City Council of Manchester has forced dozens of people – many who are reportedly refugees – from a camp outside the town hall yesterday morning
A resident of the tent city in St. Peter's Plein is peeping his head out of his tent for a quick smoke
The police said they had been called to the University College Hospital London in the midst of reports of antisocial behavior of homeless people sleeping in the area (file photo)
But soon it changed to a long -term base for homeless – mostly migrants – to stay.
A legal challenge to resist the expansions by the Greater Manchester Law Center was rejected by a judge.
Government in favor of the Judge Nigel Bird Councils said that the refugees – regarded as intruders in the law – should remove their tents.
He said: “St Peter's Square is a public facility. It is central to the city and its provision in my opinion is available to everyone. '
After winning the ruling, the Council said: 'We are clear with those camping on the square that this is not a safe, suitable or sanitary place to gain access to this support.
“Nor accelerate camping in a public space their application for homelessness or do you get a different benefit.”
Exactly fourteen days after winning the ruling, bailiffs and municipal employees tore tents outside the town hall from 6.45 am on Monday.
People who have lived in their tents in recent months were abruptly aroused by municipal councilors who ordered them to put and leave their possessions in plastic bags.
The tents were then pulled off the ground and thrown into bin trucks, while assets that were not packed were spread over the floor.
But within a few hours many of them were seen on setting up a new camp outside the Midland Hotel of the city center – just a few meters away from where they were earlier.
The council also said that the only tents that were destroyed were those who were abandoned by their former residents, who all had the option to take them somewhere else.
The Midland Hotel is one of Edwardian monument of degrees II-glued. It was where David and Victoria Beckham went on one of their first dates.
A plaque at the front of the hotel explains that Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce met in Rolls-Royce in 1904.
