The Home Office has been accused of housing asylum seekers in new areas of the country without proper vetting or consultation.
Andrew Kennedy, a Conservative member of Kent County Council, said there was 'widespread anger and fear' over the Government's decision to place more than 220 migrants in self-catering accommodation around Tonbridge and Malling.
Mr Kennedy warned that asylum seekers are being allocated housing in 'desirable residential areas' as part of Labour's move to shut migrant hotels.
Meanwhile, the leader of Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council, Matt Boughton, condemned the Home Office's handling of migrant housing as 'disgraceful', adding: 'The whole system stinks.'
It came as Labour announced it was shutting 11 hotels around the country with a promise to 'accelerate' closures later in the Spring.
Mr Kennedy said he was particularly concerned about the 'lack of consultation and concerns over vetting'.
'We have no idea who or what we will be getting and how they will be managed,' he said.
'Also, there are many homeless people locally and many more living in unsuitable housing who will feel very left behind when asylum seekers are given homes locally.'
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is overseeing Labour's plan to shut down all migrant hotels by 2029, moving tens of thousands of asylum seekers into flats and houses in local communities, or large-scale sites.
Labour has pledged to close all migrant hotels by the end of this Parliament in 2029, re-housing them in flats and houses, as well as in large-scale accommodation centres.
Mr Kennedy said he had been told 221 asylum seekers would be housed in Tonbridge and Malling borough, and estimated that about 35 properties would be required.
He expressed particular concerns about plans to house asylum seekers in two properties in the village of Walderslade, which lacks shops, public transport links and other facilities.
'It doesn't seem like much of a disincentive - I know most people would love to have a nice house in the leafy suburbs in the North Downs, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty,' said Mr Kennedy.
'Plus, we already have 200 local people on the housing waiting list.
'These homes are in desirable residential areas, which are not suitable for large groups of young men who probably don't speak English.
'The two houses that have been purchased in Walderslade have no shops, no bus services, no recreational facilities.
'It is unfair on the residents and also unfair on the asylum seekers being housed in such remote communities.
'There is widespread anger and fear about the consequences of what's going on.'
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He suggested asylum seekers should be housed at large sites such as the ex-military base at Crowborough, East Sussex, which the Home Office opened in January.
Numbers at Crowborough have been building and it now houses 350 illegal migrants, a Home Office spokesman said.
'My personal view is the Crowborough camp is the ideal place where they can receive medical attention, education, and all the support they need rather than being spread across 40 houses and rural villages in West Kent,' Mr Kennedy said.
He has launched a petition against asylum seekers being housed in his area under the Home Office's 'dispersal' scheme.
Borough council leader Mr Boughton, a Conservative, said: 'The whole system stinks - there is zero transparency from the Government.'
'We have had radio silence from the Home Office.'
'The council has no say where these properties are, or why they have been chosen.'
'I think it's a disgraceful process in the sense that they don't allow local communities to have a say where this accommodation is.'
He added: 'There are many parts of our communities like Walderslade where people will be rightly shocked that this is what the Home Office is doing to them but unfortunately the council doesn't have the tools or powers to stop this. It's regrettable.'
'Is it fair that these residents get housed when we have a housing waiting list with hundreds of families on it, who are looking for this sort of property, yet we have to put them in temporary accommodation sometimes outside the of the borough?
'One reason for that is because properties that are suitable the Home Office is snaffling up before the council is able to purchase them - and that's fundamentally unfair.'
The Home Office was approached for comment about the councillors' criticisms.
It announced the closure of 10 hotels in England - Banbury House Hotel in Banbury, Oxon; 15 Citrus Hotel in Cheltenham, Glos; Holiday Inn Heathrow in London; Britannia Hotel in Wolverhampton; Madeley Court Hotel in Madeley, Telford & Wrekin; OYO Lakeside in St Helens, Merseyside; Crewe Arms Hotel in Crewe, Cheshire; Sure Hotel by Best Western in Aberdeen; and Rock Hotel and Wool Merchant Hotel both in Halifax, West Yorks - plus one in Northern Ireland, the Marine Court Hotel in Bangor.
Borders minister Alex Norris said the closure of the migrant hotels would allow the properties to be 'handed back to the community for good'.
'Hotels were meant to be a short term stop gap under the previous government, but they spiralled out of control - costing taxpayers billions and dumping the consequences on local communities,' the minister said.
'We are shutting them down by moving people into more basic accommodation, scaling up large sites, removing record numbers of people with no right to remain.
This is about restoring control, ending waste, and handing hotels back to the community for good.'
A Home Office spokesman said the latest round of closures alone would save the taxpayer nearly £65million a year.