Asylum seeking family housed on edge of abandoned estate

A charity supporting asylum seekers have raised concerns about a refugee family being housed on the edge of a notorious and largely abandoned estate in Port Glasgow, with smashed or boarded up windows.

[@nulldmg27]

There's literally a big Tesco 1 mile down the road as well as the town centre with quite a few amenities, and other Scottish families live on Montgomerie street. They are coming here for supposed protection, they aren't royalty.

[@scottymcdonald648]

There are people living in the flats on the same street. And there are shops and the town centre 5 mins walk

[@ScotsGal]

Oh sorry ...what was it they were wanting a 5 bedroom with a pool and decking oot the back...at least they're warm with a roof over their heads unlike many of our own homeless that no one will do anything to help ..I think we should be tackling that problem first eh!...and the "lonely road " to the shop they're just under a mile from the town center along a well lit main road with plenty of people and movement so don't talk mince

[@snekiuk]

Why are you deleting comments homeless would be happy for anything

[@curlytoes9319]

Happy for them...

[@tomhayes4782]

Tough shite... I assume it was free to the residents?...

[@Fidelisjoff]

Perhaps go home is the solution

[@PAUL000F84]

Asylum is the protection that a country grants to a non-citizen in its territory. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to seek and enjoy asylum from persecution. An asylum-seeker is an individual who has left their country of origin in order to seek asylum in another country. 'go home' is not the solution to that.

[@snekiuk]

It is ​@@PAUL000F84