Dispatches

Keep Them Out (2004x3)

Air date: May 06, 2004

Documentary on public opinion on asylum seekers, visiting Lee-on-the-Solent in southern England where the government had wanted to build a hostel to hold some four hundred asylum seekers, but met with fierce opposition from locals. Some of these from the Daedelus Action Group - a group set up to oppose any asylum seekers being moved into the area - are interviewed. People express fears of infection and crime, as well as resentment and antagonism. Others who oppose their view also talk about their fears about speaking out as some have suffered physical attack for doing so.