The British government has ordered for all asylum seekers to leave a hotel in Epping, amid rising nationalist anger against migrants, including amid white nationalist activism, as we read in the New York Times:

A judge in England ruled on Tuesday that asylum seekers must be moved out of a hotel in Epping, northeast of London, in a landmark case that could prompt further legal challenges to try to force the government to close asylum hotels.

In recent weeks, the hotel, The Bell, has become the center of repeated protests, which have at times become violent. They erupted after an asylum seeker staying there was charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl, which he denies.

The local government for Epping, the district council, had applied for an injunction barring the hotel from housing asylum seekers, stating that doing so violated planning rules and “poses a clear risk of further escalating community tensions already at a high, and the risk of irreparable harm to the local community.”

A High Court judge ruled in the district council’s favor, giving government contractors until Sept. 12 to find alternative accommodations for people living at The Bell.

The judge, Justice Stephen Eyre, also dismissed a last-minute attempt by the Home Office, the government department that handles immigration, to intervene in the case after officials there raised concerns that authorities across the country could use it as a template for their own efforts to stop local hotels being used.

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The Epping demonstrations were organized through a Facebook group that describes itself as a “community organization.” But according to its Facebook page, three of its four administrators are members of the Homeland Party, a white nationalist group.

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Other hotels used for asylum seekers have been the focus of protests this summer, including in London, Merseyside, the Midlands and England’s south coast.