UK Border Force | Illegal Immigrants Hidden in a Truck! | Season 2 Episode 7 - Full Episode

[Music] [Applause] [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 [Music] they are the uk border force 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 hello mate hello and in london's west end enforcement officers question a mongolian chef you can't find any trades in your systems you're not able to show me a passport i find it all quite difficult to believe yeah [Music] in the past 10 years glasgow has become a hot spot 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 how are you open the door please hi there it's emigration can you open the door please immigration officer kerry 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't see you standing there open the door now [Music] we have a warrant to enter the premises so if you don't open the door we will force it the target today is a man named john moses is anyone else on the premises okay what's your name sir my name is oh tinder and your database 26 26 of um [Music] 26 of what what month you know give me a buff can you sit down for me who's that person mr john moses that's why huckle that's your uncle yeah and where is your uncle at the moment sure do you have your passport in this address i lost my passport you lost your passport have you got a photocopy any identification whatsoever identification mm-hmm i lost my passport right can you just listen to me just know all the times okay i'm arresting you as a special immigration offender okay you're not obliged to say anything but anything you do still be noted and may be using evidence at a later stage you're now under arrest the target that we had he was asked about do you know that person and he claimed his uncle and he's not here at the moment and he couldn't provide any further details as to that we didn't have a photograph of the actual target we were coming for therefore we can't positively and negatively say it's him or not 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 we've now found uh south african passport with the gentleman that we have arrested's photograph in it and the name patrick agbo but i believe that that passport's not genuine he's told us he's from nigeria and his photograph is now in a south african passport and now we have evidence that the gentleman who have arrested has been using the name patrick angle may not be his real name but we know he's been using it yes that's not yours i'll mention that you're under arrest okay you're under caution say anything you do so will be noted and maybe using the evidence okay so i'm going to ask you now is this your passport it has your picture in it that is your picture can i just maybe point out that you do have a marking on your face which is also present in this picture it's not me right 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 by sitting lying to me you're making it worse all right i'm not lied to you you are lying to me okay you tell me that's not your picture when i can see that it is i know you don't come from south africa but you're in possession your possession of a south african passport and i need to know why you've got it okay all right that's fine a lot of people we encounter do have various identities it's easier for them to get benefits or medical aid under another name i don't get benefit from you i'm not saying i'm saying a lot of people we encounter once they exhaust one name and they're still trying to stay in the country illegally they just said uh try to adopt another name start using that okay the nigerian man was sentenced to four months in prison for possession of a forged document he was also listed as an overstayer 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 it's genuine documents and london's immigration team grills staff at a west end steakhouse we need an address to release you too so we have to know where you're living [Music] lagos nigeria is one of the biggest cities in africa by 2015 its population will 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 receives 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 into work here we have several routes to get into work i've decided to take the boat today mainly because the traffic sometimes can take 10 minutes sometimes it could take over an hour this does beat the tube on the way to work in the morning lavish is a vibrant place it's definitely got character and soul uh it can be very dangerous at times but uh as long as you're abided by the security restrictions that are given to us it's generally okay my role is an entry clearance officer here at the british deputy high commission in lagos and i consider fees of 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 a day as i was going through his documents i noticed that his birth certificate on the format of it it contained spelling mistakes he's winning certificate that he gave has been signed by a registerer whose documents we know have been abused for example here's a blank one and these are readily available on the streets of lagos and you can just fill the parts in yourself the man has also submitted a suspect copy of his sponsor's passport i mean this photocopy of a 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 in this gentleman for me please the man has submitted documents he maintains are genuine now joe must decide if his story is credible morning sir just can't take a seat for me the application form did you complete it yourself yes and are 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 it first cousin second cousin first quarter how many children does he have [Music] this is your cousin you're gonna be staying with me yeah he's like i don't you do know because you're right in the application form uh but i think it's too too cheap right now all right why did you write one child in your application form that's what your your sponsor has got yes no i i thought you forgot i think it is okay uh all these documents you've provided to me here are they all genuine yes yeah so you're saying that your wedding certificate yes it's genuine your bank statement is genuine the birth certificate of your child is genuine what registry office was this register that huh where did you register your child's birth a ketchup yeah is that you sure huh are you sure um do you know what registry official were married at huh do you know what registry official you were married at registrar office the registrar offices okay and where did you register your child's birth my birth phone i said it's this great day right okay you see this 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 grace a dollar greater okay okay are you telling me the truth is that are you telling me the truth yes you are the applicant is sticking to his story but joe is not convinced 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 a.m and the crew are halfway into their shift 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 uh 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 like this one that's just come in now it's got no tilt cord so you can undo all of these and then just lift the curtain out they have the latest kit heartbeat monitors and co2 probes but sometimes all you need is a torch isn't it check how legal i was out over here yeah mate yeah hello mate hey hello hey come on this way they are this way they've found what's known as an axle grabber 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 stand up there for me one person one sure where are you from vietnam yeah it's very unusual to get vietnamese hiding on the axle of the vehicle which automatically for me thinks 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 2 000 pounds if he has failed to carry out the proper security checks where have you come from belgium yeah belgium yeah yeah the axel grabber isn't saying much but his paperwork tells some of his story papers from the french saying that he was removed i think he said yesterday he was caught by the french only yesterday uk border agency staff followed the 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 been crashed under the wheels it just shows the desperation of people really that they're that desperate to get to the uk that they will miss their lives for it 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 [Music] and back at the british deputy high commission entry clearance officer joe doran has looked further into his applicant's case he has noticed some alarming similarities with a previous fraudulent application this gentleman who's also wearing the same shirt same jacket and same tie was refused only a few weeks ago when he applied he also submitted all the same documents our applicant now has submitted the fact that they're wearing the same shirt same time same jacket says to me that 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 see what his relationship is between him and the previous application because uh they're 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're employed as a lecturer at uh babcock university university how many students go to babcock university 50 students that's the whole population do you know a student by the name of tohib youssef i'm asking you you're a lecturer at babcock university where there are only 50 students do you know a student at a university by the name of towheeb youssef yeah writing yes is he a relative of yours are you related to mr youssef are you related to mr youssef yes he's your cousin yes do you know this person you don't know this person not this person is your cousin this is tohi youssef huh this is tohib youssef 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 signed your application form okay and on that declaration it tells you what the consequences are of making false representations okay so think about your answers is there anything do you wish to say about your child's birth certificate the wedding certificate is there anything you wish to tell me about these now for these certificates i've already showed you that these are readily available yes on the street i don't believe that this is a genuine wedding certificate is there anything you wish to tell me are these documents still genuine it's genuine documents okay 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 his cousin when i showed him the picture he didn't know who he was all the sponsored documents are exactly the same it does look like a package didn't it just the writing is the same on the application which is obviously a whole package so that's fine there's definitely a refusal excellent thank you very much like almost 53 000 other cases a year the man will be denied entry to britain 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 sir thank you okay thank you i think he took it quite well it's surprising how many people will not um appeal that decision uh they will then reapply apologizing professionally 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 sign that declaration at the back to say that it was completed by an agent at the moment it doesn't automatically get banned for 10 years it's only when he reapplies murder ban 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 did you do any work casual housing and it's showtime as enforcement officers hit london's west end is this your real name the game's up yeah 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 okay everybody happy what they're doing any questions the restaurant is a scotch steakhouse popular with tourists on london's charing crossroads [Music] the team splits up officers livington and mitchell head downstairs to the kitchen whilst officer purewell questions the waitress how long how long have you had your visa for one year two years three years three months so how long you been in this country half maybe three months no not dream no more three months okay when does your student visa finish soon when and when does that expire i don't know if it's soon maybe two weeks wednesday what are you studying at the moment what do you study okay we're just going to do some checks with the home office we're going to we're going to make a phone call because we have records of all all visas issued if you just wait here yeah actually you know what else the waitress is ukrainian and 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 livington and mitchell are speaking to a chef he says he's from mongolia speak english tiny little bit okay don't worry any id driver's license passport it's not here where is it it's at home okay okay what's your name um like that yeah yep [Music] 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 a work permit visa you've got a visa have you what type of visa sorry student student visa just do a check okay when do you go when you go to college then when are you going to college next um now he's just working just part time when do you go to when have you been to college have you been to college recently um yeah when's the last time you've been to college last two weeks two weeks ago yeah so are you are you going to college at the moment why not i need money so you're not going you're not studying at the moment have you come to this country to work or have you come to this country to study i need i want to learn english is that why you come here is that the main reason why you're in this country to go to college basically first of all she's told she's told my colleague that she's a student she doesn't know she didn't know what she was studying she said she last went to college like two or two weeks ago she's cause she's going through a believer at all 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 listen to me no you're hearing a student visa and you'll say you do tell me you're you're working here 40 hours a week when are you studying so you're telling me you're working 40 hours a week and you're studying as well do you work do you work four days a week every week uniformly just sometimes just sometimes how many hours a week you're allowed to work when you're studying maximum research 20 hours yeah so how can you if you're working 40 hours you're working more hours and you're allowed to aren't you and you've been working not studying yeah okay that's lovely let's go with the no tracing all right thank you for your help thanks bye bye no it's definitely no trace he doesn't appear to be on their database which could mean he's given them a false name we can't find a visa for you no we can't find a visa where did you get your visa from this country from mongolia i'm not believing anything you're telling me at the moment all right because you can't find any trades 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 idea officers livington and mitchell are looking for a fingerprint match on their biometric database in calais 20 million tons of freight pass 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 drive has indicated he's had four taken out the uk team want to check for themselves to make sure none were missed there's something wrapped up wrapped up in definitely 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 yeah oh moving yeah okay hello okay well that one is open anyway hello hello you want to take it off you okay nationality vietnam from vietnam vietnam he's actually wrapped himself okay are you okay okay you're okay okay just have to make sure because they've been covered in uh plastic bags over their head that they're all right the fact that they've wrapped themself 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 going to be in the lorry for um but they do it because they think they can get around the co2 control they think that by breathing into a plastic bag it's 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 probe it we won't pick it up obviously it doesn't really work and they're putting their lives at risk you're right kelly you're still in cala yet that very silly doesn't work we still found you see how much sweat he'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 oh 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 use any means we'll probably see them again tomorrow we might have even seen them yesterday [Music] back in lagos hopeful visa applicants arrive at the british deputy high commission applicants are called for interview when their application forms a loan and not enough to qualify for a visa this morning officer andy meegan 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 and make his application properly as the spouse of someone in the united kingdom 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 but does not want his face shown so when did you first go to the uk yeah that was 2005. okay so how long were you in the uk for before you two guys met up yeah i think about two and a half years two and a half years what did you do for money during this time two and a half years yeah just so uh the guide i mean i've got a friend as well who accommodated me and sometimes uh you do give me some money when they tell me i don't have to do any work casual cow's alone no come on you've told the truth and everything else here yeah no he didn't take any jobs no okay have you ever applied for a place to study in the uk no no you sure that was early 2004. earlier i remember i told you yeah i applied 2004. married now she's allowed to hit you yeah um that was school design universe of east london okay an outmoded turn but when did you guys start dating um that's um was it named pre-open every may i can't really what in 2007 yeah did you tell her at that time how you got to the uk um to be honest i didn't falsely told her i wouldn't have never mind to be honest i didn't okay but then as time goes on she was to know yeah but later later on so when did you contact yourself last year last year yeah maybe yeah he said he's going on holiday when it comes back so after then so we're talking earlier in 2008 yeah yeah what did they say so he said no no no no go back to nancy okay okay i've got no other questions for you if you want to meet outside i'll look through the documents um and i'll let you know about my decisions okay thank you very much thank you back in the london steakhouse and the ukrainian waitress can't be found on the home office database do you want to go to a police station no you don't do you want to go to police stations are not very nice it's really hot outside and the cells are not very nice so are you going to tell them you're going to take it to mario you don't have a visa so how did you get how did you come to the uk did you come in on an airplane did you come with a train to your house train on the train yeah yeah you came on the train okay and when you came to this country did you see an immigration officer um yep and explain to me what happened when you came did you show the immigration off to your password um yeah and what what did you have a visa in your passport no and did the immigration officer ask you any questions no questions so they didn't ask you no questions and they let you through that doesn't happen i just buy poland in like america can we not get into your house show us your passengers no good times okay so somebody brought you here illegally yeah thank you that's all we wanted to know she finally admits she doesn't have a uk visa and has paid an agent three thousand euros to get into britain but the situation is that you've told me under caution that you went to the uk illegally by using someone else's documents who come here um you're aware that you're illegally therefore you're under arrest we're gonna take your personal belongings and we're gonna go to our van do you understand that okay 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 going to go to the house we're going to see if we can find a passport if we find a passport we're going to send a home just take a seat watch your head as you get in just take a seat back inside the restaurant officers livington and mitchell have a positive match for the mongolian chef possible identification let's see hang on let's write it down is it show is this you is this your real name the game's up yeah is that you there's nothing to worry about you're going to tell us the truth yeah yeah finished date of birth 18 for the 11 79 yep good luck yeah but not we get there in the end and you've just caused yourself so much more trouble by lying he gave them a false name but now they can cross-check his real identity with the home office database and there's a surprising result no he's been removed he's 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 i don't know which house is it [Music] in central london officers lippington and 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 i was wondering this gentleman give us a full story under caution we've got his 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 re-entered the country we're checking the we know what his real name is we're checking the systems now to find out if we've got any record from re-entering the country in august last year we sent you home didn't we yes right so how did you get back in well someone just told me something i'm excused for someone possible again you used someone else's passport again yeah was it a mongolian passport that you used when you came back in was it a friend's passport or was it your passport yeah okay run your respiratory entrance i remind you about the caution yeah the man was sent back to mongolia after spending two days in detention watch your head be careful in lagos nigeria officer meegan has made a decision about the man who lived illegally in britain but now wants a genuine oh british visa i thought you said you weren't there right you'll be pleased to know that your solicitor was correct i'm going to issue your visa okay so you can go back to the uk thank you shouldn't have done it that way in the first place thank you thank you so much god bless you we're running the good solicitor first of all okay thank you so very much exactly it's an adventure you've had 2005 you could see a little bit happy madame was quite ecstatic so she's quite happy and he's relieved that's it sometimes we do bring a bit of sunshine into people's lives not very often yeah arena you're gonna give me a dress there in london the enforcement team need to find the ukrainian waitress's passport so they can deport her but she refuses to tell them where she lives because her boyfriend's illegal as well she doesn't want us to go around and have 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 and we're going to try and find this ukrainian ladies passport so we can send her home what's your head here it's all right just go to the pavement first because there's a road number 27 yeah i'm sorry number 27 this is your house no no you don't live ireland we're going to try the house anyway i've been giving this address as your house okay all right we'll try it we'll try if not we'll go back in the van all right okay yeah all right it's empty now the address is out of date the current resident tells the officers a group of ukrainians moved out months ago watch your head sit down in the front as you say before please sit down please we can't release you without an address you're illegally in the uk so we have to know where you're living we don't like 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 no we're not going to take everybody no we just need your address um to verify where you live i'll talk to your boyfriend i'll i'll call him you need to think about yourself you need to think about yourself don't you will you take us there will you take us there would you take us to your house please could you show us yeah she's given us a a road which is just around the corner from here and she's 50 50 about giving us telling us where she lives so we're going to take her there um and i've told her her options and he's saying to her now to give us tell us where she is otherwise she's just going to be detained you got them keys come right down here okay which one is it i don't know which house is it you're not gonna 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 her emergency removal papers if it means she's in detention for weeks maybe a month that's going to happen um we've given all the options we've helped her as much as we can um but we have to draw a line somewhere she's going to be detained and we're going to send it home while the ukrainian waitress was in colnbrook 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 [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 45min 0sec (2700 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 17 2021