Japa: UK Migrant Crisis Reaches Alarming Level as Africans Sleep in Trash Canspic.twitter.com/jZZT5v68xe
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A viral video showing an African man sleeping inside a waste bin on a snowy UK street has highlighted the desperate lengths to which some undocumented migrants are going to avoid deportation, following the British government’s intensified immigration crackdown under its ‘Plan for Change’ policy which saw 43 asylum seekers and offenders returned to Nigeria and Ghana on a charter flight in mid-2025. The Home Office stated, “Those removed had no right to be in the UK, including 15 failed asylum seekers and 11 foreign national offenders who had served their sentences,” and pledged to continue tightening rules to reduce net migration, a policy that has instilled widespread fear within migrant communities.
Nigerians in the UK told Diaspora Tales that the threat of being caught has forced many without legal status to abandon their homes, with some now sleeping at train stations or in bins, a situation corroborated by Mrs. Gisela Esapa in Dunstable County, who explained, “Many migrants lived in Luton, and I saw how they behaved. Some people were afraid to even go to facilities provided by the UK government, thinking they might be arrested, detained, and deported.” She added that while the issue of street homelessness also affects British citizens, for undocumented migrants it is directly fueled by deportation fears, often compounded by unemployment, mental health struggles, and a lack of crucial documents like a Biometric Residence Permit.