From last Saturday (1 May), families from the new EU states were no longer entitled to National Asylum Support Service accommodation. The Home Office said these people must find a job, remain in the UK without state support and look for work, or leave the country.
But Maeve Sherlock, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said it was "totally unrealistic to expect asylum seekers to find work and housing overnight".
And a High Court judge, Mr Justice Collins, warned that there could be an "intolerable burden" of publicly funded legal challenges if the Government did not guarantee accommodation. However, the Home Office rejected their calls.
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