Immigration Police Arrest Illegal Mongolian Chef | UK Border Force | Real Responders

[Music] 25,000 men and women work for the UK Border Agency at home and abroad their job is to seek out the Noor breakers and imposters who don't have a right to be here they are the UK borders tonight the fraudsters trying to cheat their way out of Nigeria do you know this person no this person is your cousin it's a risky business in Calais and in London's West End enforcement officers question a Mongolian chef my new tracking systems you're not able to show me a passport I find it quite difficult to believe yeah [Music] in the past ten years Glasgow has become a hotspot for migrants a recent report found at least 70 different nationalities now living in the city not all of these newcomers are here legally the UK Border Agency has enforcement teams who seek out immigration offenders and remove them from Britain but their job is made harder by a racket in forged documentation worth millions helping illegal immigrants to hide under false identities immigration officer Carrie McVeigh and her team are at the address of a man they believe has overstayed his visa by more than a year so I can see you standing here open the door now we have a warrant to enter the premises so if you don't open the door we Beaufort set the target today is a man named John Moses okay what's your name sir my name is Pilate Alton they mm-hmm Angelita buff disease disease of 26 of what you're gonna give me a buff and a passport sorry do you have your passport and this address was you lost your passport if you got a foot carpet and identification whatsoever I need education mm-hmm I love white passports right Keys lessons meters Nelson's okay I'm a race needs a suspect immigration offender okay you're not obliged to see anything anything you do Supino deeds and maybe using evidence at a later stage you're now under arrest the target that we had he was honest about do you know that person immediately uncle and he's married at the moment and you complete any form of details as to that we didn't have a photograph of that your target when we comment for therefore accounts were positively or negatively see this him on what he claims to have no form of ID something the Enforcement Team have heard many times before a valid document will confirm if he's telling the truth or not Oh okay with no phoned South African passport with the gentleman that we have erased his photograph on it and the name Patrick audible but I believe that that passports not genuine he's told us he's from Nigeria and his photograph is no and I South African passport I know we have evidence that the gentleman the harbor a suit has been using the name Patrick I bought may not be real name but when always been using it yes that's not yours I'm angel you're under arrest okay you're under caution say anything you do say will be no seeds and may be using evidence okay so I'm going to ask you now is this your passport it has your picture on it that is your picture I just maybe point out that you do have a marking on your face which is also present and this picture you're making it worse for yourself but we'll carry this on at the police station okay you're making it a lot worse they set in line to me you're making it worse all right you are lying to me okay you tell me that's not your picture and I can see that it is I know you don't come from so far I put you in possession of a safe African passport and I need to know why you've got it okay all right that's a lot people reading turns up to have various identities it's easier for them to get benefits or medical aid under another name I'm not obviously I'm saying a lot people we encounter once the exhaust wasn't him and I still try to steer and the country illegally but just had to try in our name the Nigerian man was sentenced to four months in prison in possession of a forged document he was also listed as an overstay after breaching the conditions in his visa that was issued in Lagos during 2008 in Britain over 10,000 arrests were made by enforcement teams coming up UK border force goes to Nigeria and meets the officers who root out the forgeries these are readily available on the street I don't believe that this is a genuine wedding certificate is genuine documents and London's immigration team grills staff at a West End stake address we need an address to release you to [Music] Lagos Nigeria is one of the biggest cities in Africa by 2015 its population would have reached 25 million poverty is rife and for those looking for a way out Britain is the Gateway to a new life the Home Office received so many applications from Nigerians wanting to come to Britain that they have a team of officers in Lagos to police the process Joe Doran is one of these officers it's Wednesday morning and he's on his way to work we have an unusual route coming in to work here we have several routes again in the world I've decided to take the boat today only because the traffic sometimes to take ten minutes sometimes if you take over an hour this does beat the tube on the way to work in the morning lateness is a vibrant place it's definitely got character and soul and it can be very dangerous at times but as long as you abide by the security restrictions that are given to us it's generally okay my role is an extremist officer here at the British deputy High Commission in Lagos and I can see their freedom applications for Nigerian citizens who wish to travel and visit the UK or settle in the UK officer Doran is based at the British deputy High Commission around 10,000 fraudulent documents are submitted with applications every year forgeries are readily available on the streets of Lagos some are right on the doorstep of the High Commission officer Doran is just one of the 34 entry clearance officers who decide if an applicant is suitable to enter the UK this gentleman has been called in for interview today as I was going through these documents I know it's there he's birth certificate on the format of it it contains spelling mistakes he's winning certificate that he gave has been signed by a registrar whose documents had we know have been abused for example here's a blank one and these are readily available on the streets of Lagos and that you can just fill the party in yourself the man has also submitted a suspect copy of his sponsors passport I mean this photo copy of the passport I mean that has been photo that is a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy that has been photocopied so many times that the details are no longer really clear all right if you can just call it in this gentleman for me please the man has submitted documents he maintains are genuine now Joe must decide if his story is credible only sir just going to take a seat for me the application form did you complete it yourself and I'm all the details correct yes sir why do you wish to go to the UK for family physics what's your relationship with your sponsor because the first cousin second cousin first god how many children does he have she's your cousin you know nice name eBay is made possible I know you do know because you rotate the application form but I think it's - so - no no - children are like why did you write one child in your application form that's what you're kind of your little sponge has got yes no I thought you forgot I think okay uh all these documents you provided to me here are they all genuine yeah so you're saying that your wedding certificate yes it's genuine it's your bank statement is genuine to the birth certificate of your child is genuine what ministry office was this register bet and where did you register your child's birth good job okay Joe yeah you you sure and are you sure [Music] do you know what register your fish you were married at and do you know what we're just real fish you were married at registrar office okay and where did you register your child's birth my bad fine I think okay you see it is I can obtain this from on the streets in Lagos it's signed by exactly the same registrar that you are stating completed your marriage ceremony yes okay and that's a blank one that I can just fill in yeah great a solid gray so dolly okay hey are you telling me the truth it's that are you telling me the truth yes you are the applicant is sticking to his story but Joe is not convinced the UK immigration officers have been working in Calais since 2002 it's their job to protect the border by stopping the clandestines who hide in lorries who want to enter Britain illegally it's 2:00 a.m. and the crew are halfway into their shift [Music] officer Dave Percival has been working at Calais for three years and has seen nearly every trick in the book as you can see on this vehicle it's got a tilt cord that goes through all the loops on the wagon and then it goes through the winder with a seal on the back so that's quite a secure vehicle so vehicles without those you can just pull the curtain up or even just open the back door so you do need to have a little bit of security but this one it's just coming now it's got no tilt cord so you can undo all these and then just lift the curtain out they have the latest kit part beat monitors and co2 probes but sometimes all you need is a torch isn't it chacoly girls out over here yeah like I might alright hello right this way yeah this way they've found what's known as an axial grab oh yeah at some point between the vehicle parking up and the big coming through someone's climbed onto the axle of the vehicle so now our priority is to get him off and make sure that he's safe because he looks like he's quite agile so he might try and do a runner send out there for me one person one sure where are you from Vietnam it's very unusual to get Vietnamese hiding on the axle of the vehicle which automatically for me think there must be someone else somewhere so either in another vehicle or inside this one the vehicle is clear good news for the driver each clandestine could cost him a fine of two thousand pounds if he has failed to carry out the proper security checks who have you come from Belgium yeah Belgium yeah the axle grabber isn't saying much but his paperwork tells some of his story papers from the French saying that he was removed he said yesterday he was caught by the French only yesterday UK Border Agency staff followed a procedure and hand him back to the French in a few hours he could be released to risk his life once again we hear stories quite regularly about people that have fallen off axles and being crushed under the wheels it just shows the desperation of people really that they're that desperate to get to the UK that they will risk their lives for hiding in lorries isn't the only way to get into the UK illegally in Lagos Nigeria the black market in fake documents is booming and back at the British deputy High Commission entry clearance officer Joe Doran has looked further into his applicants case he has noticed some alarming similarities with a previous fraudulent application this gentleman who is also wearing the same shirt same jacket in st. I was refused only a few weeks ago when he applied he also submitted all the same documents an applicant now has submitted the fact that they're wearing the same shirt same tie in same jacket says to me they are going to the same agent and I believe that this is a package a new package which has just started circulating I'm just going to say what his relationship is between him and the previous application because they all claiming to be the same person's cousin thank you hello sir take a seat there for me thank you for being so patient with us just want to confirm that you employed as a lecturer at Babcock University worse do you know how many students go to Babcock University over 50 students on the whole population do you know a student by the name of Tom he abusive hmm don't you look at me very well okay I'm asking you your lecturer a Badcock University where there are only 50 students do you know a student at university by the name of toheeb yusuf yeah yes is he a relative of yours are you related mr. Yusuf what is it are you related to mr. Yusuf yes no good he's your cousin yes do you know this person you don't know this person no this person is your cousin this is so abusive this is so he abusive your cousin who studies at your university where you are employed as a lecturer he has produced exactly the same documents that you have exactly the same okay you saw in your application form okay and on that declaration it tells you what the consequences are and making false representations okay so think about your answers is there anything you wish to say about your child's birth certificate the wedding certificate is the only thing you wish to tell me about these now for the certificate I've already showed you that these are readily available on the street I don't believe that this is a genuine wedding certificate is there anything you wish to tell me or are these documents still genuine is genuine documents and they thank you very much you'd like to take a seat outside you'll be given your decision in a few moments okay [Music] before making his final decision Joe must refer the case to his entry clearance manager Morris Harper this gentleman who in interview he said by the name was he's cousin when I showed him the picture he didn't know who he was and all the sponsor documents are exactly the same it does look like the writing is the same on the application excellent thank you very much like almost 53,000 other cases a year the man will be denied entry to bring thank you for being so patient with us I know it's taken some time I have made my decision and my decision has been to refuse your application in brief it's because you have submitted forged documents to me do you have anything to say to me there you go okay thank you I think you took it quite well it's surprising at how many people will not appeal that decision they will then reapply apologizing profusely telling saying that they got ill advised by an agent they completed the form wrong it was completed by an agent they didn't realize that they didn't star in that declaration at the back to say date was completed by an agent at the moment it doesn't automatically get banned for 10 years it's only when he reapplies would have banned start from today's date with so many fraudsters caught out every day it's physically impossible for the police to arrest them all so the man is free to go coming up the man applying for a UK visa despite the fact he's been living in Britain for two years and it's show time as enforcement officers hit London's West End [Music] Beckett house London the enforcement team have a tip-off that a restaurant in the West End is hiring illegal immigrants the intention is to talk to all staff present at the address and identify any persons illegally present or without the legal right to work in the UK ok what happe what they're doing any questions [Music] the restaurant is a scotch Steakhouse popular with tourists on London's Charing Cross Road the team splits up officers Livington and Mitchell head downstairs to the kitchen whilst Officer pure world questions the waitress two years three years three months so how long you been in this country three months what do you study [Music] I used to the English do some sex with the homo phase we're gonna make a phone call because we have records of the waitress is Ukrainian who says she's a student if she's telling the truth the officers will find her records on the home office database down in the kitchen officers lipping tynin Mitchell are speaking to a chef he says he's from Mongolia speak English tiny little bit okay don't lie just turn it all off just like this one you got any ID on you yeah any ID driver's license passport it's not here where is it it's at home okay okay what's your name yep yeah what's your family name J or gj6 and you're from Mongolia yeah how long have you been in the UK for three and a half years about three years what leave have you got to be in the UK what what leave have you got you've got what permit these are you've got these to have you what type of visa student student visa still check okay when do you go when you go to college then well then you go to college next Wendy got have you been to college have you been to college recently Wendy when's the last time you've been to college two weeks ago so you are you are you going to college at the moment why not now if I need money so you don't go you're not studying at the moment have you come to this country to work or have you come to this country to study is that what you come here that the main reason why you're in this country is called college basically first of all she's told she's told my colleague that she's a student she don't know she's know where she was studying she said she last went to college like two saw two weeks ago she's because she's believed the most that foreign students are allowed to work during term time is 20 hours a week both interviewees say they're students but the Mongolian chef has just admitted to working 40 hours and you tell me yours you're working there for two years away when are you studying Jamie you're working 40 hours a week and you're studying as well do well did you work for there's awake everybody just sometimes only has a week you allowed to work when your studies 20 hours yeah so how can you if you're working 40 hours you're working more hours and you allowed to are now you've been working not study yeah okay that's lovely oh the nitrates in alright thank you for your help thanks bye by the way no it's a definitely no trace he doesn't appear to be on their database which could mean he's given them a false name now we can't find a place where did you get your visa from Mongolia I'm not believing anything you're telling me all right because we can't find a trace in your systems you're not able to show me a passport I find it all quite difficult to believe yeah there's another way to find his ID I think he's gonna have to go through station yeah officers Livington and Mitchell are looking for a fingerprint match on their biometric database in Calais 20 million tons of freight passed through the port every year even with British and French border controls it's impossible to search every lorry passing through the port this driver says he has already been stopped by the French can we open the drivers indicated he's had four taken out the UK team want to check for themselves to make sure none were missed something wrapped up wrapped up in black bags until I get down there I can't actually say whether it's a clandestine my colleague is going to look at that one I'm going to look at this one we don't know what it is at the moment it could just be bags I'm gonna go down I'm not sure whether if this one is okay moving okay hello okay well that one is opening anyway hello John - take it off you okay nationality Vietnam from Vietnam okay are you okay you okay okay just have to make sure because they've been covered in plastic bags over their head that they'll write the fact that they've wrapped yourself in plastic is something that we've seen quite a few times it's very very dangerous because they don't know how long they're gonna be in the life or and but they do it because they think we can get around the co2 control they think that by breathing into a plastic bag is going to contain the carbon dioxide that they produce by breathing so that it's not going to be in the vehicle so when we prove it we won't pick it up obviously it doesn't really work and they're putting their lives at risk right you're still in kaleriya that very silly doesn't work we still found you see how much sweat she's got on him from sitting in that bag for too long that's the bag the man was hiding in it's been taped in the middle so it's it's almost human length with no documents and no answers the team have no idea who these people are they're handed over to the French but could be back again within hours are they will try again no doubt about it these guys are pretty desperate to get to the UK and as you can see they'll though you use any means we'd probably see them again tomorrow we might have even seen them yesterday [Music] back in Lagos hopeful visa applicants arrived at the British deputy High Commission applicants are called for interview when their application forms alone are not enough to qualify for a visa this morning officer Andy Megan is dealing with a difficult case the applicant lived in Britain as an illegal immigrant for two and a half years under a false identity he's returned to Nigeria to apply for a legitimate UK visa he's decided probably on the advice of a solicitor to come back to Nigeria and make his application properly as the spouse of someone and although his wife is from Lagos the couple met in Britain and they had their first child all of this while he was still an illegal immigrant despite his dishonest past he is now prepared to tell all by coming clean he hopes he will be allowed to live in Britain legally the man has agreed to be filmed it but does not want his face shown so when did you first go to the UK okay so how long we in the UK for before you two guys made up about two years so what did you do for money gymnast time till half years dose of the guide I mean I've got a friend as well sometimes you've told the truth everything else here yeah no okay have you ever applied for a place to study in the UK no no sure no it's been two thousand or what all that yeah I applied two thousand photos not even know she's I like to hate you must of East window okay and I would eat ten but when did you guys start dating so was it hit pretty pretty open M premier can't really put in seven yeah did you tell her at that time how you go to the UK to be honest I didn't falsely told her I wouldn't know me to be honest I think okay but then as time goes on she was to know yeah so when did you contact your solicitor last year last year in China yeah he said he's going on holiday when it comes back so after yeah What did he say so he said no no go back to Chile okay okay okay I've been no other questions for you if you want to me eyesight I look through the documents and I'll let you know thank you very much thank you back in the London Steakhouse and the Ukrainian waitress can't be found on the home of this database no you don't do you want to go to these stations are not very nice it's really higher sides and the cells are not very nice so how did you come to the UK do you come in an airplane train the Train yeah I came on the train okay and when you came to this country did you see an immigration officer what happened when you came you saw the immigration officer you possible yeah and what did you have a reason in the past fall no I did the immigration officer ask you any questions no questions so they didn't ask you no questions and let you through that doesn't happen [Music] okay so somebody illegally yeah thank you that's all we wanted to know she finally admits she doesn't have a UK visa and has made an agent 3,000 euros to get into Britain but the situation is that you've told me and the caution that you went to the UK legally by using someone else's documents you come here you're aware that you're illegally therefore you're under arrest well they take your personal belongings and we're gonna go to our balances and that ok now the officers need the woman's passport to begin the removal process she has told them it's at her house this will be their next destination we're gonna go to the house we're going to see if I can find their passport click find that passport we're gonna send her home back inside the restaurant officers Livington and Mitchell have a positive match for the Mongolian chef possible identification scene immigration before we get there in the end and you've just caused yourself so much more trouble by lying he gave them up false name but now they can cross-check his real identity with the home office database and there's a surprising result come back again coming up a painful decision for the Ukrainian waitress as she's forced to choose between her friends and being locked up in a detention center okay which one is it Irene now which house is it [Music] in central London officers lipping tynin Mitchell now know the identity and immigration status of the Mongolian chef he's a failed asylum seeker who's previously been removed from Britain this gentleman give us a false story and caution though he's true identity and we know that he's a Mongolian who was previously removed so what we're trying to do now is find out how he's reentered the country we're checking your we know what's real name is checking the systems now my name is Reid if we voting record by the end in August we've sent you home didn't we yes right so how did you get back in you use someone else's passport again yeah one going in past put the used when you came back in was a French passport or was it your possible wasn't a friend who anything did you pay money to someone how much money you paid a thousand extra pounds this gentleman he's under arrest the man was sent back to Mongolia after spending two days in detention in Lagos Nigeria officer megan has made a decision about the man who lived illegally in Britain but now wants a genuine British visa you could see a little bit Maidan was quite ecstatic and he's relieved that's it sometimes we do putting a bit of sunshine he was likes knocked a deal yeah Irina you address in London the Enforcement Team need to find the Ukrainian waitresses passport so they can deport her but she refuses to tell them where she lives coz that boyfriend's illegal as well she doesn't want us to go around and nab the boyfriend and she said there's eight other Ukrainian people living there so I don't think she wants to be responsible for other people's fate the woman hasn't given them an address but the team have managed to find one by using her mobile phone we're going to an address in Lewisham we're going to try and find this Ukrainian amy's passport so we can send a home what's your head it's all right it was comic on the pavement Fester's is a road number 27 yeah number 27 this is your house no you don't live here then we're gonna try the house anyway I've been giving this address as your house okay all right we'll try it we'll try it if not we'll go back in the van all right okay yeah all right the address is out of date the current resident tells the officers a group of Ukrainians moved out months ago what's your head sit down to the front or as you say before please sit down please we have to know where you're living we don't want detaining people and we don't detain them unless we have to the woman lives with her boyfriend and eight other Ukrainians she doesn't want to get them into trouble with immigration are you ready to give me a no we're not gonna take everybody no we just need your address to verify where you live I'll talk to your boyfriend I'll call him you need to think about yourself you need to think about yourself thank you will you take us there will you take us there will you take us to your house please could you show us yeah given us a road which is just around the corner from here and she's 50/50 about giving us and telling us where she lives so we're going to take her there our toddler options and it's time to her to give us tell us where she lives otherwise she's just going to be detained we got them peaceful but I'm right down here Helen the other keys in it I think which one is it Irene now which house is it you don't tell us you have to tell us you have to tell us she can't bring herself to give up her friends it leaves the team with no option without her passport she will have to serve time in a detention center waiting for the emergency removal papers if it means in detention for weeks maybe a month that's going to happen we've given all the options we've hoped for as much as we can but we've got to draw a line somewhere she's gonna do the same while the Ukrainian waitress was in Colebrook Detention Center her passport was handed in by a friend she claimed asylum which was refused and after spending over two months in detention was removed back to the Ukraine

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Keywords: border control, illegal immigration, british immigration, border policy, uk border force, uk border control, immigration office, home office, passport, illegal, border force

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Length: 45min 5sec (2705 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 12 2020