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It uncovered legislation corporations and advisers charging hundreds of kilos to assist asylum seekers faux to be homosexual so they may make a profitable declare to remain within the UK. The Home Office has since introduced that it’s investigating the claims, however the Green Party have accused the publicly-funded broadcaster of attempting to “heighten the hostile environment facing those claiming asylum’ through its reporting. A Greens spokesman said: “We are disappointed the BBC failed to put this report in context, showing the challenges those genuinely claiming asylum face.

“When they give so much prominence to the report, stretching it out over multiple days of reporting, it ceases to be in the public interest and instead serves to heighten the hostile environment facing those claiming asylum.”

The spokesman added that the report “gives an entirely false impression of a system which is, in reality, stacked against people seeking asylum”.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp blasted the social gathering, accusing them of not understanding the immigration disaster.

He instructed the Daily Mail: “Repeatedly they ignore the concerns of the public and want a world without borders. It is an extreme, dangerous fantasy. Vote Green, get chaos.”

On Wednesday, Downing Street warned that migrants discovered to be mendacity about their sexuality to assert asylum might be deported.

Asked in regards to the experiences, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman stated: “Both the Home Office and Immigration Advice Authority are investigating the claims made by the BBC, both yesterday and today, to ensure anyone potentially abusing our immigration system is held accountable.

“Any attempt to misuse protections designed to protect genuine victims from the devastation of domestic abuse is shameful and completely unacceptable.

“The Home Secretary has been clear that those trying to defraud the British people to remain in the UK will have their application refused and find themselves on a one-way flight out of Britain.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said sham lawyers would “face the full force of the law”, including: “Anyone abusing protections for people fleeing persecution over gender or sexual orientation is beyond contempt.”