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every year over a hundred thousand people to go through passport control HED interpret most of welcome leaders for the first time on television we go behind the scenes who paid for her agency men and women on the front line of immigration tonight dreadful working conditions in middle England only to enter the UK no you have no in alluring the passenger in Heathrow with a belly full of traveling there is something in his bow on the front [Music] the United Kingdom has a population of over 60 million despite the border controls with entry points estimated are up to 1 million legal immigrants living working in the country it's the job of the enforcement teams to find these people one of their latest methods is to go out on the streets and stop anyone I think look suspicious so immigration led a street operation at North Greenwich station basically looking at the public and anyone reacting to our presence and thus will be stopping them and asking them their immigration status pickle a sealer to using North Greenwich tube station where they will stop and investigate anyone they suspect of committing immigration offenses the whole idea of having a restrained immigration officers on the street is still very new and I don't think the majority of the public are aware of our role and what we are doing I'm from the UK Paul drive say can you tell me what country you come from what did you say your wife's name was are you lawfully in the country are you lawfully present in this country what mission how did you go you naturally because you were married to one you are who you use now the imagination - where's your wife form and prom special worth now you just have with my photographer and erase the suspicion that then you're gonna give you kind of a since you do not to say anything my on you defected some real question some future like Laden cool anything you don't understand about writes me why you ran so why did you run you catch your bus your group yes now okay shuffle back and lean against the wall the dying is getting very aggressive hands in my face if I didn't do something then you could have ended up hitting me I don't get paid enough relations with the man who tried to stop the rest do you know that guy you don't know him right okay next time you see someone having a little altercation you don't if you don't know that the reasons behind it don't get involved okay we'll let him go now take his details and send it off to local police station we obviously create a lot of interest from the public some people giving us a round of applause other people so it's morally wrong that we're here to do a job so we do have a chance to do if you run away from this what I'll do when you analyze what is that easier 100 we'll see if you can establish show us who you are and if you bother to be famous country got keys I'm just gonna put you in here hey mind your head yeah front lip very front seat left hand side if he was running from the police the police would do the same thing we have we have to do the same thing now questioning him again to find out is identity in his status don't always can always go so he's got might emerge a French girl alright well first of all what murder we find out whether that story's correct cheer all right and then we'll take it from there this guy tried to run away from the scene so we want to just check his details the gentleman was given five years to remain in the country because he was married to a French national but then we think that that has now expired his EU residents safe expiry 25th of October 2005 for that application extended the condition but he expired as another stylist [Music] the date has been seller is retired to Nigeria he has since appealed against this these cases yet coming up third well conditions in Worcestershire they're working in conditions that you wouldn't want to keep animals in really the passenger of a throw whose story doesn't access all your bike thank you have no clothes belonging to you and back on the streets with the yes Louise that all right common Whelan [Music] Heathrow is the world's busiest international airport the immigration teams often given advance warning of travelers who may have something to hide chief immigration officer Matt Dyson has just received some intelligence about a passenger expected from Miami his foot officer leads the league under the case the record show he has been issued two British passports in the last seven years in this identity yep but I think Jamaican national submitting the same photographs in other words would be the same person yeah was landed as a visitor in a different identity in 2001 all right okay oh yeah this yeah it's about information okay the Miami flight landed an officer Lee takes up position ready to stop the Jamaican man with a suspected fake thank you very much thank you yes sir hello so how are you today mister passenger she's been waiting for where'd you live in the UK sir listen sir just needs have a quick look at your passport I love you okay won't take a minute all right no did she it's not your lucky travel then is it officer Lee plays it cool he doesn't want the man to think this is anything more than a routine check you've been there on holiday wasn't first truly dad's first Barbados you've had a long journey Lin haven't you to London via Trinidad Barbados has taken the night okay so what I'd ask you to do please just for a moment can you just take a seat down there for me please and we'll be back with you as soon as possible all right where is you come on just say that okay I don't want him unattended okay we're gonna go down there yep after that I'll come back up we're just gonna go down and have a look through your bags no all right if he's up ten British passports fraudulently such a quite serious action that's a prosecution matter we may just look to refuse and remove because that might be the most sensible option but again we can't make a call on that until we we find out what's going on with his route to London is one after news by drug trafficking it makes chief Dyson suspect there may be more to this case than just a flake puzzle I'm also a bit concerned he might be involved in other activities and a good check in customs would give us a bit of a pointer on that one do you have a ticket Oh a serious nature of this investigation included in a customs officer to conduct massage [Music] finally the customs officer finds something the passenger is carrying too much boobs we are wanted to offer you alliance but because of in delays here suggestion people okay you're come follow me back upstairs sir nothing found in the bags they've swapped them nothing no evidence of carrying drugs or having had them in his bags recently the passengers bags maybe there is still the matter of his possible what we need to do is just check the background of your passport the problem is when you just need to check into the background of your passport that's all as I explained to you just general inquiries all right goes to see your boss for an update that's bugging a prosecution unit they want to prosecute okay final business so we need to keep our important aluminum they're gonna want the futures recorded file making up yeah and then they're gonna game arrested okay so they're gonna arrange for some okay the man be arrested for having a false passport but officer Lee doesn't want to tell him just yet what's gonna happen now is I need to take your fingerprints okay all right sooner we get it done the quicker we can get on next officer Lee will take the investigation further a medical check okay so can you follow me because we just need to get you looked at by our doctor because we're holding you up we need to make sure you're fit and healthy he's gonna have to go to the port medical inspector for an x-ray to check that he hasn't swallowed anything customs didn't have enough grounds to do an intimate search or an x-ray because we're detaining him we have to make sure he's medically fit so we do have the authority to take an x-ray thank you Lisa [Music] p.m. I have just x-rayed him there is something in his bowel it looks like the Jamaican will be here for some time [Music] 7 a.m. deep in rural England an affordability received intelligence that they may be illegal immigrants working with a spring apparently there are up to 1520 nationals all kind of different nationalities finally possible Iraqi Indian Romanians working that will just see what's there when we when we were over 18 strong team split up hitting two buildings where the suspected illegals are working it's not what you didn't put everything down please from immigration we've come just to need to do a few checks there's anyone speak English morning people gonna need you all to stop what you're doing at the moment because we need to speak to you regarding your immigration status and when he got any ID with them ID driving license bank cards no question this is a warrant that allow us to come in to your property yeah okay I speak to your employees yeah okay that's for you how did you enter the UK even without know a molarity it's your sister's how long have you been in the UK arrived here five years ago yeah 130 pounds she received class with me can you can't give us if you need them coming up they're working six days a week they are being paid 435 town for 14 hour week which I reckon top of my head could be wrong about 375 an hour which is obviously a couple of pounds below the national minimum wage this is no straightforward matter the workers are not being employed directly for the farmer but through an agency they're claiming that they work for a company that's an employment agency and there's five scoops to prove so obviously there is a lot going on rules guys to game masters and forced labour and things like that that they're being quite quite about where they live saying that the people in the Diamonds pick them up in the morning bring them to work so they're public donuts and an awful life anything but they were work for their accommodation so somebody's basically forcing them to work yeah it's horrible coming out to a job like this where you see that they're working long hours for little money in conditions that you wouldn't want to keep animals in really but the conditions are relatively cause mud underfoot and pretty horrible outside they have to work in this unheated room which is leaking profusely yeah memory and we're poor back home and that's why sold our house and had to sell my land to go to they're not criminals they're here because they want to better themselves they want to better their lives we understand why they do it if I was put in the situation without to feed my kids and I would do exactly the same thing although employment regulations are being broken the enforcement team's job is to identify it and remove illegal workers we believe that you're illegally present in the country so I'm not arresting you on suspicion eventually that leaf and some candy I understand okay like I did something a manís ladee have both been arrested on suspicion of entry without leave the son has told us that he's entered on the back of a lorry four or five years ago and the sliding rivers same same story as a visitor through an agent probably gentlemen degree 13 to 51 database the couple are in fact over stairs but they have passports valid passports have their home address so the process will do now as we've asked if we gave our parameters to find their passports they happy with that so we're going to return them to their home address now take them back there find the passport I can get on a bus and go home basically they've both arrived on visit visas which were valid for six months in 2007 and they've overstayed since then of the 20 people working at 17 were found to be most of you temporarily released my papers needed to remove them repaired and others have absconded their whereabouts only two was so far being moved the agency supplied the illegal workers was fined 85,000 pounds in London the enforcement team led by officer Shane Healy prepare for another street break we're going to Stratford station once I deploy you're on the scene the spots will observe their passengers embarking and disembarking and any individuals who draw themselves to the attention of officers by acting for example nervously or acting in an order in appropriate manner will be approached by the officers in question regarding the immigration status okay then from great officials now enforcement teams have been running street operations into 2006 the London team carrier up to three each week as the morning rush out each day 100,000 pass through the transport loops here at Stratford in East London as communities rub shoulders with each other today is influenced but Dean has the difficult task of finding a between here who will interview people between sales for attention and determine their status if there are lawfully present their be arrested and are the tang to immigration detention or to a local police station for further interview these top of operations we don't go away with an empty van if you like you know there's always some always always somebody you'd be surprising them people that we do come across on these type of operations to the members of the team active spotters watching the privates officers have the legal right to stop and question anyone reacting nervously to their presence hello alright we're from the Immigration Service yes how you how you doing you're right from the Home Office yeah and we're quite distance he's noticed us and he shoveled to the left to shuffle to the right so if they left I shoved to the left each up to the right look at my one card from the Home Office immigration are somewhere here show me cities from Pakistan I asked if he's got a visa Louisa alright come on read it as the man has admitted he has no duty a visa is questioned further by the arresting officer sitting in this country above the cabochon Greenstreet do you work at the cabbage all right are you going to work yeah all right okay you got your ID on you yeah identification yeah yeah have you got a visa in the UK but I kind of talked to you over there then please yeah many of the people stopped can only speak broken English but some officers are able to interpret [Music] the suspect he's now being questioned in Hindi posess speaks Hindi and my colleague here who speaks Hindi is taken over the questioning at this point to establish exactly how he came in and when so we can work out with where we go from here he's admitted that he came into the UK a year ago he came from Belgium in the back of a lorry he paid an agent some 3,500 euros he's here illegally you're under arrest okay I'm arresting you on suspicion of being a legal intern in the United Kingdom okay you understand that you do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you're not mention when questioned something you later rely on in court anything you say may be given in evidence okay you understand that okay John take your bag off yeah okay what have you got your pockets anything that relates his identity the nationality entering my indicate where you live so that's your friends bill that's not you your friends gone back to India yeah okay why have you got this why do you have this why have you got this I am bid will you got a pipe for it yeah and there's more innovative evidence yeah you shouldn't have this you have someone else's bank card it's my friend I even got my phone : he's got a bank card in there which is in a different name to what he's given us he's stating that it's his friends but shouldn't be walking the street with somebody else's bank card in his property okay all right come on mate yeah don't let him know we're coming up with two arrests in the first hour it looks like it will be a busy morning coming up the man who can't remember his own birthday okay to cook it down today you get the part the Jamaican is introduced to the drug toilet he's found to be smuggling drugs and it's a whole new ballgame he'll enter a kind of a different area prosecution the Canadians never met this girl thank you bye bye as a man [Music] heathrow has seen its fair share of drug smugglers over the years and even while airport detection systems around the world are improving there are still those who learn to try their luck this man came into Heathrow a suspected first class bank but the immigration officers had a hunch that he was a drug trafficker well we've got here again this this area here it's excess gas which can be misused by holding this done an x-ray taken at the airport reveals the man has suspicious packages of his stomach the doctor is 99% sure that the objects in the passengers lower intestine are foreign objects so the officers from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs are going to go and speak to him now mr. Martin would you come out please the doctor feels that there are foreign objects in your body system we have no alternative method and I'm arresting you on suspicion of being involved in the implication that controls caution you you do not have to see anything but if you fail to mention when questioned something that you later along because this is not a unique occurrence here at e3 customs have installed a special drugs toilet that will collect the evidence once we've identified smugglers with packages of drugs concealed internally we escort them to facilities like this they sit on the the toilet area up there they pass the packages through and we'll switch the water on and we will generally clean the packages like that we put the packages in the jar and then these are secured away as evidence he's found to be smuggling drugs and it's a whole new ballgame you'll enter a kind of a different area prosecution and that will will take the lead particular if you've swallowed them because there's a health risk there they will be observed by customs and during the course of the day after two sittings ninety six package I would imagine there was a sense of relief though because he knew he'd been found out he knew there was no escape and he probably just thought I want to get rid of what's in there because who knows what could have happened to him if one of them had burst or something if just one of the pack is embarrassed enough to kill the man pleaded guilty to drug smuggling and traveling the diffuse possible he was sentenced to six and a half years in prison after which he will be deported back to Jamaica at Stratford station in his London immigration offices Williams and Ely are questioning the Nigerian you just guys what now the man first often at work now claims he has indefinitely to stay rather be okay what does the visa called do you remember volcano Vista yeah what you're doing Babel looking a visa see if you're telling the truth yeah you'd know you'd know the answer to that there's different sorts of visas and you know what you applied for it must been quite a big occasion you come into the UK so you know what fees are you applied for so you obviously didn't did you I don't know if you want to start thinking again about what you've told us because at the moment nothing - making any sense is it do you think your story sounds good do you think your story sounds credible it's up to you to prove to me that you're legally in the UK I don't have to prove anything you have to prove to me that you're legally here well exactly you walk about with no identification on you whatsoever you tell me you've got a work visa and you change it indefinitely the officers are not getting any straight answers so they try to track the man down on the immigration database for this they needed data said 1982 hole this thing isn't dice as well sure in months exactly to covet our thank you so you get with the cards are you and I can still remember my late sister library through the right good now we have no choice remember literacies they mean to nobody with that name and that day of birth has got indefinitely that's what it means so do you want to change what you're saying now well what I want you to do is tell the truth because if you had indefinite leave he's beyond our system with you so why don't you give me a real details then we can make a decision on what's going to happen next right little name look that birth at the moment you give him no options - oya you are going to be arrested you carry on some people are using so many identities that they do trip themselves up and they get confused and don't remember who they're supposed to be today and you know if you're going to use different identities then I suppose you are going to get slightly confused now and again realizing is being caught out the Nigerian finally explains his reason for being in Britain with you this is the reason I came to this party it's them and I can't look live pluggable and you have this died yeah why don't we go back yeah because when I finish late they just miss me so I was a little - that sounds on its when did you visor expire when were you supposed to go back so this is what we booked six months yeah he appears to the state he certainly has no legitimate basis what we we will take him to an immigration holding center and deal with him from there seven years ago this man claims by calling it a six-month sports visa the liveliest made for himself as country will soon be home he has agreed to a voluntary departure date back to Nigeria what the hell is he going layer the team made a total of seven arrests during the street operation at Stratford six men were given temporary release but all have failed to show up at a Reporting Center they are listed as absconded on the police national computer at Terminal 3 flight from Chicago has arrived but the passenger who claims to be a doctor has been stopped by immigration officer Bridget Hall the man was born in Africa and has been living in the US for the last ten years his lives in the States he's got a green card his permanent resident there he wants to transit through the UK to get his flight get which should be leaving in about five hours or so back to Sierra Leone nationals from Sierra Leone must have a visible transit visa to class three the passenger was applied for both to be refused all of this requires further investigation so he's turned up today with no visa two refusals behind him and a flight that's leaving this afternoon and he wants to try and get on that as a whole least to be sure the passenger won't stay on in Britain if she grants him access to catch his connecting flight I've seen the ticket so I do know he's got an onward flight but that doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna go on it quite often they'll get an onward flight and it's a smaller outlay for them gaining entry into the UK so before she issued a visa she must be satisfied the story it's a bit strange that somebody'd want to give up a good life in America so we've got to check his bags now as he is returning permanently he's got about six pieces of luggage saw myself and a colleague we're gonna go down search through his bags quickly and make sure there's nothing that we should be concerned about thank you straight away the search throws up some surprises oh so I check the regulator's you come across from that one over there cheers me what's this for sir the potassium tablets what easy tricks what's in dammit assume for the meta Foreman lovastatin so if you've got high blood pressure as well good job you talk to them really one of the reasons you will refuse your visas when you are unable to prove that you have this job that you are a working doctor so I need to see some evidence to show me that no you're not not I was but you're not yet it's one of us and now there's more to around the office especially my father or maybe my okay this is women they should have had you know that's my sister who's Jonathan for was promise that's a lot of stuff is not enough there was his going back to Sierra Leone to live but yeah it's not got anything of his own their access oh your bikes I've done it myself on your bike thing you have no clothes along with the youth it's now making more sense why he was possibly refused his visa on both occasions I now have to look at things in a different line not sure whether he's gonna be getting on his flight because of the unusual contents found in the man's bags did you apply for a visa to transit through the UK yes but I I have like for the wrong transit visa is a visit visit visit in transit visa which they denied if you were denied your visa why did you still decide to travel here I consulted with bridges embassy consulate in Europe you say that as long as I have a permanent resident card connected right meeting into four hours mmm-hmm ideally not a problem but the fact that you had these refusals kind of changes everything you had Sierra Leone passports belonging to other people why is this well is about brothers and sisters they are not been to their countries from some of them for over thirty years so they were give me their passports to renew to renew their passports do you have any evidence that you are still a registered doctor because the paperwork that I saw in your baggage search was all very old I am NOT already standard doctor in Syria because I have just gone after 10 years of absence due to the Civil War that's the end of our interview we just want to sign here for me after the Internet officer passes on her concerns to chief officer guys he's got prescription pad he's on top medication for various ailments he's got a card isn't he supposed to be a doctor he said he's a doctor he's not registered anymore he's a nursing aide like an auxilary nurse hence he couldn't show the visa officer there he was a doctor exactly what he told me but that and that's what he led me to believe when my first book to him that yeah I'm a doctor I'm registered I don't think you need to come back to me with this one if something is refusing I think we're agreed on this he may well be going on early on but I'm not taking that chance yeah and the too many variables in this so if your yeah yeah thank you States ASAP yep the passenger arrived at Heathrow without the UK transit visa his luggage around suspicion he lied about his job officer Hall can't trust him to catch his flight on to Sierra Leone there is nothing new in front of me today that would let me consider reviewing their decision to deny you a visa to come to the UK in order to transcend you should be refused entry in which case we'll have to put you on a plane back to Chicago well I'm gonna go back to the holding room now then you'll be escorted down to the flight if the man wishes the travel to Sierra Leone we have to get the correct documents or take a roof doesn't pass through [Music] coming up officer Hall takes on what looks like a straightforward case um how do you know your girlfriend but his girlfriend is hiding the secret thank you bye-bye [Music] at Heathrow immigration officer who has another case just stopped a 19 year old Canadian who's also an online gaming faith he's coming here for four months if it's his girlfriend who's a British national by his own admission he's got very limited funds nine hundred pounds four months he doesn't have a credit card to back it up mister sacani hello my name is Bridget I'm going to be dealing with your case today nine hundred pounds four months okay even if you're staying at a friend's house you do we all live in the UK we know how expensive it can be anything could happen it could be a mijita could need emergency treatment who knows you know that that nine hundred pounds isn't going to go very far okay is anyone meeting you today sir we just look here for me now your girlfriend's name Kiera may is that Kiera me is her first name amaze her surname like a family thing okay alright let's go through to the interview room some of the questions may be quite probing on what to up say you were tall but I have to get a really clear answer so um how do you know your girlfriend remembers this originally matter about a year ago and we're talking online when I talking face-to-face at that point okay have you ever met a girlfriend in person hmm no officer Hall is concerned that if things go well for the Canadian his girlfriend he may be tempted to stay on okay perhaps a call to his girlfriend will set things straight hello can I speak to hear and may please you won't expecting him today are you okay can I just ask how do you know him how long ago so you'd say that you've known Glenn for total of four or five weeks yeah no no longer than that because he actually told me he'd met you a year ago well obviously we're not sure whether we're gonna allow him into the UK at this moment in time I'm gonna have to go back to him and just him you know obviously put that discrepancy to him is there are you going to be contacted on this number again because I think he may want to speak to you okay well thank you for your time thank you bye-bye it's a man it's a man yeah that was a man I said can I speak to kiri yeah that's me and there she's got a really sore throat that's a man that's officer who now knows the passengers internet girlfriend is male and the two have never met she must tread carefully if the news is not to come as a shock um have you spoken to your sponsor on the phone at all it's always been online it's gonna sound like a mad question bear with me okay what six is your sponsor yeah okay well you said you said girlfriends oh yes you can affect me lots of times we don't have a problem with people having boyfriends at all so I was concerned then I thought you didn't know okay all right now we have a little problem your sponsor told me you had only met for five weeks ago well online he said online that they met yeah so you're saying as a relationship yes but officer Hall is still concerned about the man's limited funds for the passenger claims he'll get help from its girlfriend's mother I have to be sure again that he's gonna leave when he says he will and without speaking to the sponsors mom and knowing that she's happy for him to be here she's happy to support them financially you know it's all secondhand information oh hello hi how do you know Glenn please the amount of money he has available to him which is rather limited given the time he wants to stay I'm just wondering I mean if he came to it would you be in a position where you would be able to support him financially right can I just mother's willingness to help the passenger financially could be enough to convince officer Hall to grant entry but first you must run my species shortly okay bye I need to speak to you man that was the mum it was my sponsors mum she's known about this all along she's more than happy to support him whilst he's here I want well I want to land him I do initially no you know what I thought it was a refusal I've spoken to everybody involved now I cannot in good faith refuse this man when I think that I I tend to agree with him and I think he will go on okay well man brilliant thank you but now I have the happy task of letting my passenger out on his holiday I'm going to allow you in for your holiday the only provider is I have landed you so I've put a stamp in your passport until the date of your return ticket so you have to leave on or before this date [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 44min 10sec (2650 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 22 2019