Keir Starmer is under pressure from Labour's Red Wall to clear out asylum hotels "quicker" than promised.
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves vowed to close down the hotels, used by roughly 32,000 asylum seekers, by the end of the current Parliament in 2029.
However, Labour MP for Bassetlaw, Jo White, said the caucus she leads of around 40 MPs wanted the hotels to be shut down far sooner than promised.
It comes after 16 arrests were made last week over violence at the Bell Hotel in Epping, following the alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl by a 38-year-old Ethiopian migrant.
White told The Telegraph she had "heard" from ministers who said "they share the frustration on the number of small boats that continue to come across".
"I know they're listening because I constantly go on about it," she added.
“There’s a commitment to close down the hotels by the end of the parliamentary term. I think we all want it to be a lot, lot quicker than that.”
She urged Starmer to "stop the incentives" that has seen a record 24,000 migrants cross the Channel this year alone, marking a 50 per cent rise.
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PA | Police at a protest outside an asylum hotel in Epping over the weekendWhite welcomed Home Secretary Yvette Cooper's plans to share the locations of asylum hotels with food delivery companies in a bid to clamp down on illegal working.
The Bassetlaw MP called on Starmer and Cooper to establish identity cards to tackle the migrant crisis.
However, that has continued to be ruled out.
White shared similar anger to her own constituents, saying "there is a huge sense of unfairness because people work hard here in this country and commit to supporting the country".
GB NEWS | Bassetlaw MP Jo White
"Then there's the sense that what asylum hotels cost is a huge drag on what should be invested into our NHS, our schools and our infrastructure," White added.
"So they have to close, we have to get those asylum hotels cleared out."
In reflecting on the protests in Epping, White said it was "really frightening and quite scary", adding violence was never the answer.
"Whilst you might be angry that these people are here, they are human beings," she said.
"Violence against those people is not acceptable and cannot be tolerated."
An unnamed second Labour MP suggested Cooper's department had failed to understand the gravity of public frustration with the hotels.
"Obviously we are closing hotels but if the Home Office can't understand why the public don't like migrants using four-star hotels in Canary Wharf, then there's a problem," the MP said.
That comes after a ring of steel was put around the hotel in an bid to stop protests.
"I've been pushing for looking at former MoD sites for detention centres," the MP said.
"Then you wouldn't need to use these flashy hotels."