New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- Anti-immigrant and anti-racism demonstrators faced off in London on Saturday in the latest in a series of protests outside hotels housing asylum-seekers.

Several hundred protesters waving Union Jacks gathered outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in central London, calling for it to be closed as housing for migrants. Chants including "Scum" and "Britain is full" were directed at the hotel.

Police separated the demonstrators from a larger group of counter-protesters chanting "refugees are welcome here," as people inside the hotel watched from windows.

Protests against migrants have taken place in recent weeks in Epping, a town on the outskirts of London where an asylum-seeker was accused of sexual assault, and in ...