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Detained migrants working way below minimum wage lose out on £250k in just one month
The Tories are redefining low-paid work, says Labour's shadow Home Office minister Richard Rosser
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DETAINED migrants have lost out on almost a quarter of a million pounds in wages over the first month of this year already, new research by the Morning Star can reveal.
The Home Office pays asylum-seekers and other migrants as little as £1 an hour for work they do inside detention centres.
They can be held indefinitely while the department considers their immigration cases.
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