The Nigerian Farmer | UK Border Force | Episode 5 | FD Real Show

[Music] 25 000 men and women work for the uk border agency at home and abroad their job is to seek out the law breakers and impostors who don't have a right to be here they are the uk border force tonight in lagos a farmer sows seeds of doubt but it's an emergency travel documentary they're issued within 24 hours that's why i'm surprised in calais it's good morning vietnam hey be careful as well and a factory in southampton produces an assembly of illegal workers you're under arrest for being in this country illegally and working illegally [Music] alright [Music] 5 am portsmouth immigration officer peter campbell is briefing a joint team of police and immigration staff their target is a plastics factory in southampton where they believe foreign nationals are being employed as illegal workers so very simple when we get in the premises we've got six interviewing officers they'll be conducting the interviews everybody else is there in a cover role so if the interview officers could just remain here and the rest of you go and find your vehicles 30 officers are on this operation sourced from different enforcement teams across southern england it's a big factory the immigration team don't want to take any risks the premises has never been visited but um it's been on the cards for the last about a year and a half that's um the intel is very good for it but it's logistics wise it's a big job so it's it's getting the staff for it really i think there's gonna be quite a lot of people to deal with so we've got about six offices that are going to be interviewing then everybody else is going to be in a cover role today so it'll be that'll be my role just to be where i'm needed really stop here stop here the first stage of the mission is to seal off the escape routes the teams split up one group surrounds the perimeter that's clear as another moves inside the factory guys for immigration can you come over everyone is a suspect so all the workers are quickly rounded up with the entire workforce together the team sets up a safe zone where the interviews will take place at the moment we're just trying to contain the area and get everybody who's on the premises into a sterile area so at the moment we're just trying to cover everybody until we get ourselves set up to interview everybody we didn't lose anybody nobody escaped or anything so yeah it's good went quite smoothly we just gotta do the rest of it now okay what's your name essex at the mountain a city do you want to write it for me there so that's set name sing yeah yeah and you're indian yes and how long have you been in the uk how long have you been in the uk you came in 96 and what's your entitlement to be here okay what's your entitlement to be here 96 yeah yeah i know you came in 96 how did you come in 96 you flew in in 96 did you yeah have you got a visa yeah work permit yeah when did you get there yes where's your passport now this is my fault at your house right so how long was your visa for me 96 yeah yeah but are you here legally now i'm really good no are you i'm 96. you officer jones isn't getting any clear answers and neither is officer jodie deadman what language do you speak the man claims to be greek but says he can speak a little punjabi he's got a greek power that is in greece you're telling me that you're you've got a greased greek passport why did you send it back to greece [Music] okay he sent it back for renewal it's going to be stamped again to be renewed so how am i going to believe that you're greek national when you can prove that you can't show me that you're a greek national he said he can he can get the passport back he can get a photography of the passport back within 10-15 days well no i need it now basically what he stated to me is that um he's a greek national but he which means he's a european national and he doesn't need a visa to he can basically live freely and work freely in the united kingdom the problem we have is he has no identification to prove that to me yeah yeah right what do you want me to do with him then we haven't arrested him don't pull out performer yet i need to fill out if you're going to arrest him all right okay where's your where's your document you speak english yes you do stop lying to me where are your documents [Music] officer campbell has ordered the first arrest and with 45 people still to be interviewed there could be many more coming up the pig farmer trying to save his bacon in nigeria have you been arrested and fingerprinted by the police in the uk i'm asking you and officer powell questions a pregnant lady at lagos airport when you went for your american visa did you tell the visa officer that you're pregnant [Music] the slums in lagos nigeria plagued by violence power cuts and poverty the product of a city in the middle of the largest population boom of the 21st century lagos is one of the largest cities in africa ties to the uk are close and for many in search of a better life britain is their number one destination here at the british deputy high commission 110 000 visa applications are assessed each year and the decisions on who to let into the uk made by 34 uk border agency officers i've had a very quick look at this case and the first thing i noticed is that the marriage certificate is not genuine on the basis of that this application is going to be refused this is the man who's just been declined for submitting false documents they say i should approve the home office will impose a 10-year ban if he applies for another visa but with almost 10 000 fraudulent documents detected in 2008 alone the police do not have the resources to arrest them not all cases are so straightforward some applicants are asked to go to the deputy high commission to be interviewed by an entry clearance officer this man has been called in because he was arrested in the uk in spring 2009 yet the stamp in his nigerian passport says he had already returned to nigeria he'll be interviewed by officer phil morgan the next case we have is a family visitor he has come to the attention of the police in the uk in march of this year 2009 and when we look through the entry stamps back into nigeria the last entry into nigeria that he has is on the 12th of november 2008. now my guess is he's maybe paid somebody to wind back the stamp to show him entering nigeria before the expiry conditions of his last uk visa which expired on the 7th of december 2008. if the man wants a visa he'll have to explain how he got his passport stamped when he was clearly still in the uk morning i need to ask you some questions about your current application okay okay what do you do for a living at the moment i'm a farmer you're a farmer yes please a farmer in what i am poultry fishery and people and are you married yeah happily married and how many children do you have two little boys two sons yes okay my gene is for boys so i don't want to go further i noticed from your passport that you last entered the uk on the 28th of october yeah and how long did you stay i stayed almost five months five months yeah almost so when did you return to nigeria march 21 sorry march 21 but your visa expired on this the visa expired on the 7th of december 2008. yeah so you breached your conditions no something terrible happened tell me what happened yeah the last time i traveled october 27 i traveled with the cousin of mine his name is akin redmi aditola yeah yeah we we had to come back on the 12th up to november but i changed my mind to stay five more days yes what was the terrible thing that happened then yeah uh whitey was coming back he came back with my jacket my jacket and my passport and ticket was in my jacket yes when he turned out the passport for stamping at the immigration officer and you know what applies here is you'll be on the queue two people will be sitting down you give your passport to the first person you send it to the next person to stamp then the next person that stan will call you when you want to and write to you so by the point of adding over the discover is not the owner of the passport i might pass forward with help does your cousin look anything like you then really not really not really so the nigerian immigration officer didn't look at the bio data page and compare the photographs with your point of delivery that was when they come here but they've already done this stuff that's very good thank you i need to refer to my entry clearance manager okay if you wait outside please yeah i just want to add that why i had to stay long was because of that issue and it took me three months to have to get emergency travel certificate that was that was so devastating to apply for emergency travel certificates nigerian embassy took three months while i have a lot of things to do here i also need money to attend my business meeting i have so many things to attend but it's an emergency travel documentary they're issued within 24 hours that's why i'm surprised you need to see the crowd i need to go through the website to download after downloading you need to be leaving interview date three months it's so disgusting that's my area of problem well as i said i need to refer the case to the entry clearance manager so if you'd like to wait outside please thank you well he's uh attempted to explain why the re-entry stamp shows the 21st of november he says that his cousin took his passport back to nigeria with him and got the nigerian immigration service to stamp that i don't find that very credible myself i've been honest enough to them i don't think i should lie about any questions i've told them be absolutely true what happened and i don't live in uk i only go and visit i don't see any reason why they should not allow you to go anymore 2 500 miles away and officer dave jones is still attempting to get answers from his interviewee right to start work here the person that gave you the job you would have to show him something so to say that he was legally here in the united kingdom and he was entitled to work so what did you show him all right you've got you've got a national insurance card yeah where's that yeah where did you get this from your solicitor yeah your sister gave you this why are you entitled to be here and work who gave you permission to be here and work yeah it was a little longer job here everything officer jones will now check his immigration status on the home office database so he can win sorry trace december is he is he fez yeah lovely cheers now listen you're in the united kingdom illegally yeah and you're not entitled to work all right okay sorry okay you know that though don't you huh you know that don't you you know you're not entitled to work and you know you're here illegally don't you okay this chap actually arrived in the united kingdom uh in december 98 and he was arrested and served as an illegal entrant at document abuse um he didn't have sconded and he's been an absconder ever since he did claim asylum um he's failed but he's been absconded since 98 so he's going down the station and um it'll be processed from there i've already cautioned you but you're under arrest for being in this country illegally and working illegally all right i'll let you know what's going out to you in a minute yeah illegal entry it's been a busy morning for the team 46 people have been interviewed and many arrests have been made we've made 12 arrests of which two were one was a failed asylum seeker one was an overstayer um and the other 10 were arrested on suspicion of illegal entry although the manager doesn't want to appear on camera he is keen to prove he hired the men in good faith and carried out all the necessary checks this is the employer's file where he's keeping all the details of his workforce um and it looks like one of my colleagues actually sees it so we'll be taking this back to the office to run the checks that for the people that we've arrested an employer must check and keep copies of a worker's documents before hiring them this helps to show they've done everything possible to follow the rules if later found to be employing an illegal worker if however they are knowingly employing illegal workers or can't show that they took these necessary steps they could be fined up to ten thousand pounds per employee what we're doing now is the people we've arrested have all gone down to the police stations um the remaining officers here we're all going to go and um do the house searches now for the addresses of the people we have arrested so i've got a small team here and we're going to go down and do two addresses and hopefully we can find some documents within okay all right what's your headlines going mate all right okay in order to remove the suspects from the country the team need to verify their identities the best way to do this is to search their homes and find their passports or any other form of identification 200 what is a 202 because they uh they didn't have keys for us so it's okay just knocking and um let's see if anybody answers today okay can we come in you're happy for us to come in yeah okay yeah okay so who lives here into you and this gentleman here inside the house the team encountered two men who were both foreign nationals and immediately admit to being in the uk illegally he came to look for work two years ago and how did he enter the uk you are now under arrest you don't have to say anything but it may harm your defense if you do not mention one question something you later allowed in court anything you do say may be given in evidence the team have found more than they bargained for both men are arrested for entering the uk on the back of a lorry now their rooms can be searched too okay sit on the floor okay where do you have any paperwork okay no problem myself and my colleague are going to look around yeah okay we'll ask you questions no please if you show us the paperwork we don't need to look at your address the man claims to have no paperwork so the team will have to search the entire room sometimes these things happen we go to a home address and obviously we've got the power to come here because we've um arrested the person um they've provided this as their home address their place of residence so when we come back here we've encountered another two working here had a quick chat to them and found they're actually in the country illegally so they've been arrested on suspicion so we're now having a search through their room is this your bag next door the officers have forced entry to one of the bedrooms we've gained entry to this room this is the room for the guy who was arrested down at the factory i found all his pay slips so we know we're in the right room so hopefully we'll um we've got a passport for him have you done all these paul i haven't gone through the deal in the third bedroom officer viv has found an asylum registration card which appears to give the owner the right to work in the uk i mean this this particular one it's got employment permitted and from my phone call that my colleague made to the home office earlier on there was no trace of this gentleman on home office records so this card would appear to not not been issued by the by the home office they've just found a counterfeit art card usually they are cards i've got employment prohibited on them you'll see on this one it's got employment permitted so it always makes you have a second look anyway if it's got permitted on it because very few of them do but that is a that is a particularly bad one and that's not all officer vives also found a fake passport well the gentleman first of all said he's an indian national it seems that it's falling apart and as you can see there appears to be something else under underneath it seems to know one page is being stuck on to another next door the deception continues another national insurance card is it folks well i would say it's very moody here he's he said he's saying it's moody he's saying it's supplied by a previous occupant oh excellent as a false one for uh and cc paperwork fake passports and forged documents are flooding the uk from factories in eastern europe the officers have found plenty of fakes but not the genuine passport they were looking for although the trail took an unexpected twist the team have gathered enough evidence of deception to remove the men these two arrests take the total to 15. the two men are both currently in detention this man is also in detention and is awaiting removal from the uk back to india this man claimed to be from greece he wasn't he is also waiting to be removed back to india coming up more tales from the nigerian pig farmer what is your date of birth 1904 1960 1964. [Music] the port of calais northern france for thousands of illegal immigrants traveling without documentation this is known as the gateway to the uk with over 20 million tons of freight being transported by ferry each day the opportunities to hide in one of the thousands of trucks traveling to britain are plentiful the births are where the lorries wait to board the ferry it's the last chance for the teams to find stowaways before they reach the uk it's a huge piece of machinery by the looks of it today the team are searching a lorry of sports cars and have had a high reading on the co2 monitors the device used to detect human breath rubber tires also emit co2 which could explain the high reading therefore such loads as these are a popular choice for people seeking a lorry to hide it charlie is clear you've got what charlie tell us we've got some about 15 yeah guys please take the plastic bags off your head take the plastic bag off your head take it off your head health and safety good quietly are you all well though you're all good yeah excellent how many have we got eight nine ten we have ten vietnamese nationals in plastic bags the co2 probes are proved right and 10 vietnamese people have been found beneath the cars okay right you just stand here for me just stand there all right they've attempted to avoid detection by putting plastic bags over their heads we don't know how long they've been in there and they all was covered in black bags covering their heads as you could see from the footage you got and then we just wanted them to get some air out here they're nice people they're good they're no trouble to us they're going to be fine here we'll just keep them here till we get them the escort team there they'll put bags over their heads to stop the co2 coming out but the moment they take them off all that co2 is released into the trailer say 10 people do that at the same time it's a lot of co2 it all comes together and you'll get this massive reading when you see it some areas of vietnam are considered to have an unsatisfactory human rights record by the home office vietnamese nationals are being detected in increasing numbers in calais many have paid agents up to 20 000 pounds hoping to achieve illegal entry to great britain but you understand a little english no no no no i need everybody's name this time they haven't made it across the channel although they were just five minutes away from boarding the ferry the group were later released by the french authorities and were free to try again the lorry company was fined four thousand pounds the deputy high commission is the headquarters for the uk border agency in lagos nigeria inside officer phil morgan is speaking to his manager dan barker about the visa application of this man he claims he overstayed his last uk visa because his cousin accidentally took his passport back to nigeria i put it to him there was no reason why his passport should have been stamped it should have been his cousin's passport that would stand correct so i believe there's an attempt at deception here to show that he returned before his visa conditions expired now if we were to believe that his passport was brought back to nigeria by mistake his reason for staying the extra three to four months was that he applied for an emergency travel document from the nigerian high commission in london and it took three months now i believe those documents are issued within 24 or 48 hours okay so i just don't find that credible either and has he got a copy of that emergency travel document with him i didn't actually ask that so i can ask him a few more into uh questions if you wish cool thank you both phil and dan have their doubts so this time phil will confront the man about his police record do you still have your emergency travel document no they collected at the immigration office and i have to stay five five hours because i need to collect my passport back and that was in the evidence to show i'm going on the passport what did you do for the three months while you were waiting for this emergency travel document to be issued badly now i was feeding what you ate for 24 hours a day going around they're monitoring my business yeah okay have you been arrested and fingerprinted by the police in the uk myself of our i'm asking you ah not not that i can't remember yeah except for driving with my international license yeah so you have been yes when is this i can't remember it's been a long time i can't remember it should be four four years when you were arrested by the police what name did you give them what's my name well i have evidence that you gave a different name can i know the name they told me and they said i gave yes yes please yeah it's adi whaley adebayon no adi welly they miscourted them no i have the police record and that's the name you gave them and also you what is your date of birth 1904 1960 1960. yes please what is 64. so well again i have evidence that you gave the police in the uk your date as birth as the 25th of september 1975. no that's not me that's not me well they're your fingerprints that the police took and that's the name you gave them no i'm sure i gave them my name i did buy on my corrected top box that it has never changed okay and what was why did the police arrest you what happened was i used the extra small tire at the emergency tire the emergency tire and i was arrested because of that that's fine thank you very much if you just like to wait outside again it's the end of the interview and the man has failed to explain his deception so panda obviously to refuse for use of deception from obtaining a stamp by deception which appears genuine oh yeah i believe it is genuine um and we'll obviously refuse him and refer him to the police indeed right i've referred your application to the entry clearance manager and your visa application has been refused the reason it's been refused is that at the time you were arrested by the police you gave a different name and date of birth in your passport also you overstayed in the united kingdom by more than 28 days yeah well that was that was the intention but you should have attempted to regularize your position uh your status in the uk having realized that your visa had expired and that you were in the uk illegally anyway that's a copy for you with your appeal papers okay the gentleman over there will give you back the documents and your passport okay thank you the gentleman holding his passport is inspector lawal of the lagos fraud unit he was taken away for further questioning but released without charge the same afternoon the farmer has failed to get his uk visa but each year around 60 000 genuine visitors make it to the uk from lagos the post of uk border agency officer in lagos can be a dangerous one expatriates and western-based companies have been the targets of kidnapping sarah powell is an immigration liaison manager unlike her colleagues in lagos sarah travels to work in a bulletproof armor-plated car it can be a bit sort of living in a bit of a pressure cooker at times when you just want some some independence and freedom but most of the time everybody gets on and you accept all the security measures that are in place to look after you unfortunately about 18 months ago one of our drivers was shot and killed on on duty on his way on onto the mainland and so we do take security very strongly at the high commission sarah is based at the deputy high commission but spends most of her week travelling to and from matala mohammed airport hey joe how are you today sarah doesn't have any legal powers at the airport it's her job to advise airline staff on how to spot people trying to enter the uk illegally we provide the training to the airlines so that they can do the job on their own we don't have to stand here and do the job for them we're here just as an advisor to the airlines to explain maybe some of these technical difficulties inform them of any current trends with the different types of forgeries different types of counterfeit documents but anyone who does arrive in the uk who doesn't have the correct visa doesn't have the correct paperwork in whatever shape or form the airline will be fined two thousand pounds which is a hefty load for the airline to face so it's in their interests obviously to work with us and ensuring that everybody's got the right documentation over five million people travel through murtala muhammad airport every year let's see who we've got at the boarding gate the passengers are given a final check this is the last chance to spot imposters before they reach the uk all these bits and pieces just show you boarding pass at league guys we're not taking arsenal supporters today i'm afraid this is a liverpool zone okay so no arsenal support it no sarah has been asked by the airline staff to look at a woman's visa the woman does not want to be identified how are you okay what's your final destination today no today today today in london okay so i'm going to us you're going to the us tomorrow okay you've been to the us before okay approximately when [Music] 1975. okay when you went for your american visa did you tell the visa officer that you were pregnant you is there any reason why you didn't tell the visa officer that you're pregnant it didn't come up okay what i'm gonna do the woman is only seven weeks away from giving birth yet has decided to visit her sister in america claiming she will return three weeks before her duty says that you're afraid to travel babies born in the uk don't automatically qualify for a british passport but babies born in the us do automatically qualify for an american passport so it's quite common for pregnant ladies to travel overseas so that they can have the baby in whichever country to automatically get that passport sarah is suspicious of the woman's motive for traveling to the us via the uk but she could also be in breach of airline regulations for travelling whilst pregnant when she did 5th of june what is happy time 16th of may so she's got three weeks between her return date and her due date which makes her 37 weeks pregnant which is over every airlines limit the whole policy on how advanced you can be i think it's about 33 or 34. 32. well her letter says 33 so she's already over there because the woman is in breach of the airlines policy but as she has a valid us visa sarah must now contact the u.s embassy hi um it's sarah i'm at the airport at the moment um i just wondered if you could give a call to the american embassy so that they can check an american visa for me she's at the airport today and she's in advanced state of pregnancy so if you can just give them a call and find out if they're happy with that and if so then we can let her travel sarah now has to wait for a reply from the u.s embassy but the flight leaves in 10 minutes the decision to question the woman in the first place came from the airline but sarah's presence has become the focus of the woman's frustration it's the immigration people that would either tell you or not they will tell you at this point because your flight here is going directly to the uk you didn't choose delta to go directly to the states and this is why i'm on duty here to see the people who are traveling through the uk it's minutes before the flight leaves but whether or not the pregnant woman will be on board is up to the u.s embassy right okay okay all right i'll do that then okay thanks very much all right thank you bye-bye okay that was the american embassy and they want to speak to her today the flight will be leaving without the pregnant woman now sarah must tell her the news so what i've done is i've contacted the visa man and explained your situation what he'd like to do is if you can you go back to the embassy here in lagos show him all this paperwork and he'll want to speak to you i'm sorry i know it's frustrating but if we can go back to him because the pregnant woman did not make it to the usa when she failed to turn up at the american embassy her visa was cancelled coming up a massive find at calais we've got at least another six so we're going to be upwards of 20. [Music] back in calais bridget and the response team have received a call from a crew on the other side of the port requiring urgent assistance yankee one this is charlie just to let you know that we're on route to lane 173 to join [Music] richard and bridget work alongside the newly formed calais response team what we're going to is is lane 173 down at the birth area where one of our teams has radioed up to say that they have a lorry down here that is full of illegals so we're going to be responding to it good there's at least 25 they think in tires but big tires big big tires they've no idea how many people are inside and judging by the size of the load it's not going to be an easy search again there's two officers inside so if we go up this side help with the uh section of the tyres and the front has still got to be searched as well right there's a seal on that one there was a seal on the back the driver was on there i o mine was inspected the seal it wasn't sealed properly entered the vehicle at the rear unable to visually check the vehicle but there was a smell there was a possible entrance of illegals you took the side curtain off looked in these two sets of tyres found a group of ten in the first group second set of tyres another nine or ten people eighteen now that's five in there gary found five in the other vehicle in the other set of tires we've got a check arrest yeah the lorry is carrying large tires for agricultural vehicles it's a dangerous load to hide in and the first priority is to get the people out safely okay we start getting them out one at a time man i'll get the bottom ones up first keep away good man yeah you can pull it back more now just because we're gonna pull the curtain back is that okay we don't want you to fall out hey be careful as well one of them smoking in here because there was so many in the middle some of them have actually laid in these tyres along here there's got a lot of space in there so we'll have to check when the everyone's out just check all the tires just make sure there's still another laying in there get back the stairways are all vietnamese they are the third most encountered nationality at calais behind eritreans and afghans no one minute one minute one minute good man one minute where's your shoes oh down there i don't know why they took the shoes off but they did they were all in here 10 of them they might have been on top of each other's head so that may be why they took the shoes off it's only a guess sorry him there yeah is that the last one of the eight isn't it that's 16 yeah so far we've got at least another six so we're going to be upwards of 20. they're all carrying the plastic bags and this is what they put over their heads the vietnamese are so desperate to come to britain that they cover their heads with plastic bags to evade the detection of the co2 monitors i'll make it 24. 24. none of them are carrying documents these men and women are anonymous and completely untraceable all the crew can do is ask them for their name date of birth and where they boarded the lorry 21. in your vietnamese they all stay together the gentlemen always look after the lady so again they'll be very protective of them and we had one english speaker which was great so we've got all the details that we needed great fine though cre great fine in total 24 vietnamese people were found hiding in the lorry and handed over to the french authorities the driver was eventually fined two thousand four hundred pounds [Music] you

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Length: 43min 57sec (2637 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 08 2021