Protesters are expected to gather outside The Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, after an asylum seeker was charged with allegedly attempting to kiss a 14-year-old girl.

Joan Paul Alcivar De La Cruz fled persecution in Ecuador and was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at his asylum hearing, his wife told CBS News.

The Home Office has launched an investigation into asylum seeker payment cards after data showed some had been misused for gambling. A Freedom of Information request made by PoliticsHome revealed more than 6,500 payments in gambling settings were attempted by asylum seekers in the past year.

Friday’s arrests are the latest at increasingly-tense courtrooms in San Francisco: ICE has made more than 30 arrests after court hearings since May 27, and on Friday agents, at least one of whom was armed, walked up and down the hallways outside the courtrooms, waiting to make arrests.

EXCLUSIVE: A foster carer has recounted her experience looking after an unaccompanied asylum seeker who turned out to be older than she thought.

ASYLUM seekers are still receiving money on taxpayer-funded credit cards even after being granted refugee status. A probe has been launched after we uncovered cases of migrants saying they were

Trying to get to the UK is a treacherous journey for refugees. Even if they make it, growing protests and increasingly hard-line policies are waiting for them.