CHILDREN have been calling out for help over the barbed wire fence of an asylum processing centre at Manston, where campaigners warn of an unfolding “humanitarian catastrophe.”

Migrants’ rights activists who staged a small protest outside the facility on Sunday told the Morning Star they were surprised to see “dozens” of young children, including toddlers, inside the compound.

The group described the site in Kent as an “internment camp,” with 4,000 asylum-seekers held in deteriorating conditions, many sleeping in large communal marquees without proper sleeping facilities.