This small hotel is at the center of a
national debate about migration. A day
after the appeal court ruled that the
allmale migrants housed here can remain,
the argument continues with England's
most senior serving cleric telling Sky
News reform leader Nigel Farage he's
offering simplistic solutions. What's
your response to those people who are
saying policy should be you land here uh
unlawfully uh you get locked up and you
get deported straight away. No ifs, no
buts. Well, I'd say to them uh you
haven't solved a problem. You've just
you've just you've put it somewhere else
and you've done nothing to address the
issue of what brings people to this
country. We should actively resist the
kind of isolationist short-term
kneejerk, you know, send them in this
case, send them home.
>> Let's put a name on it. Is that your
message to Mr. Farage?
>> Well, well, well, it is. I mean, Mr.
Farage is saying the things he's saying,
but he is not offering any long-term to
solution to the big issues which are
convulsing our world, which lead to
this. His comments are unlikely to
endear him to the politician who has
pushed the issue to the four this
summer. Speaking earlier this week,
Nigel Farage was clear he thinks he's
more in tune with public opinion than
the clergy. Whoever the Christian
leaders are at any given point in time.
Um I think over the last decades quite a
few of them have been rather out of
touch
perhaps with their own flock.
Migrant rights are human rights.
>> Migrant rights are human rights.
>> In Long Eaton in Nottingham Shere,
protesters from both sides of the divide
gathered at a migrant hotel some would
like closed.
>> They're really close to tipping point
this country. So many of us are
struggling to pay for everything and
working so they can lounge about in
hotels.
>> Honestly, get them gone. It's not safe
when they're here. It's just unfair the
way that these people are being
scapegoed. I understand the unrest and
there is a conversation to be had about
how these are getting here, but it's not
their fault.
The appeal court ruling has left
everyone in limbo. The council here in
Eping and residents who want this hotel
closed, the government whose entire
migrant hotel policy may hinge on the
outcome of a full hearing in October.
And of course those inside free to stay
for now while their own personal claims
creep through an immigration system that
appears overwhelmed.
>> The end of this chapter in one of the
defining issues of the day will not toll
for some time. Paul Kelso, Sky News in
apping.