UK Border Force - Season 2, Episode 2: The Calais Jungle

25,000 men and women work for the UK border infancy at home and abroad their job is to seek out the wall breakers and imposters who don't have a right to be here they are the UK boys tonight stowaways get boxed in at Calais illegal workers with incredible stories you say you arrived last night on a glory and you walk straight in here to a job and he says is 15 and a bad reaction to being stopped at Heathrow I've never been violating my clothes have never been thrown out gonna calm down a bit but I've been here since 11 o'clock [Music] Calais in northern France is the port most favored by migrants trying to enter Britain immediate UK Border Agency officers work round the clock checking for clandestine illegal immigrants stowing away in Freight they find 19,000 clandestines a year who have managed to slip past truck drivers and hide in their load penalty for bringing clandestines into the UK control zone before you come here check your vehicle yourself the port is a pressure point with an estimated 1,000 migrants waiting for their chance to get to Britain and living in a squatter camp they call the jungle here the clandestine swap information and plot their next attempt to cross the channel illegally they play a cat-and-mouse game with the UK Border Agency part of a team starting the early shift our immigration officers Lee Harper and Jules turn they know the tricks commonly used by clandestine a big seal they've stopped a lorry that looks like it's been tampered with and want the driver to open our but what he's done is just don't take his padlock off and as he's taking the padlock off it's actually no it's broken so it could be an indication that someone cut the padlock and glued it makes gamma basically and gone from the sidewalk well right actually known till we open the door go in ourselves the trucks load is yogurts and inside it's as cold as a fridge [Music] okay twelve twelve people that we can see at the moment in the back of the lorry but there are more hiding in the corner at the back Sammy okay my friends for every clandestine found a driver can face a penalty of two thousand powers so it's in his interest to keep his vehicles secure because I don't pop outside on the street about the inside and the services don't pay the semi you were brought about me although the driver parked in a secure area seventeen Afghans managed to break into his truck and it would appear an accomplice fixed the padlock from the outside bolt cutters on it what it looks like they have done is just push it straight back in and maybe even glued it together so it looks like it's a whole padlock again for the clandestines getting caught is an occupational hazard some will keep on having a go however long it takes how many times have you tried you've been here a year you stay in the jungle crazy one year I think a lot of them have been through it before we find the same people time and time again at the moment obviously our controls are much stronger than they have been in a long time so we are seeing the same faces so they know that the routine as well as we do for failing to prevent 17 clandestines from breaching his truck security the driver was fined 1700 pounds the freight company was fined two thousand five hundred pounds clandestines rarely carried travel documents and so avoid being removed from France they are simply escorted from the port and are free to return to their makeshift camp despite living in appalling conditions the clandestines believe the jungle is a better option than the countries they are flee this man has travelled from Kashmir in search of a better life and like all the clandestines he imagines the UK is the place to find it if I go over there marry after marrying I will get paper after paper I will get job our house how our child but for those who do make it across the channel life in Britain can often fall short of the dream coming up the Enforcement Team catch up with a clandestine repeat offender doesn't justify you going to here for the second time why would you think that'll be right and a case of deception at Heathrow you said that you met him 10 years ago in New York ten years ago you said you met in ten years ago in New York I've got it written down here the UK Border Agency man all entry points into Britain to make sure only legitimate travelers get into the country but some get through illegally and many visitors stay longer than they should it's estimated there are up to 1 million illegal immigrants living in the UK today in Stoke an enforcement team led by immigration officer Phil Arthur is planning raids on carwashes believed to be employing illegal workers this morning we're going to use car washes are all very local to the office here the first of which is bubbles hand car wash when we enter straight in and it's going to be very dynamic guys we want to get run out of the vehicles and straight into them ok thanks general enforcement teams around Britain have their work cut out keeping tabs on car washes they are startup businesses that can appear overnight and offer low paid casual work appealing to workers who are not entitled to be here most city centers nowadays have quite a lot of these establishments the problem is that at the end of the day these people are either illegally in the UK and or illegally working in the UK it's excused the Afghans Iraqis that's the sort of person we got weak and illegal so we don't talks about these people to be paid the minimum wage to don't expect any we can't aren't our actives to be mapped by the employer it's just a case of exploitation once again Ames trying to shut these places down a car wash is the kind of place clandestines who've beaten the checks at Calais can end up working it can be a far cry from the life they'd hoped for in from immigration okay we've got a warrant issued by the courts to me this morning I just need to establish your identity nationality and status in the UK all right there are three employees if they have the right to work in the UK they should be known to the homeless you come this way when were you born yes Pakistan are you illegal or illegal in the UK legal you have a visa checks against the database confirmed this man has a British wife and is allowed to work and that his Pakistani colleague has indefinite leave to remain in the UK but the records relating to the third worker are less straightforward he has a checkered history with the border force the UK the man was caught living illegally in Britain two years ago he opted for a V are assisted voluntary return a European scheme that gave him a free flight home and 500 pounds cash he says he's come in a month ago again after after the man was returned to Iran he traveled to Iraq and married a British woman he then came back to the UK hidden in the back of the loan how did he come in this is illegal even though he's married of these yeah apparently he's applied to come in Legally and not been allowed so he's probably clean he's living with his wife he's in this with his wife and Silverdale officer Sean Flaherty wants to know why the man took a vr only to come back again as an illegal entrant we have laws for a reason you applying for a visa yeah you refused a visa and then you completely decided to disregard you care law and enter the country illegally what why would you think that'll be right at all nothing cause that could take any country I would stay my country it's just how about my wife issue didn't stay there if she doesn't like it like it like it the culture she didn't like of that religion she didn't like it there nothing you know if you wanna go difficult is the for whatever reasons then that's between you and your wife but it doesn't justify you coming in here for the second time if you refused a visa it means you're not being large 29 Kingdom it doesn't mean here's a green light gone get in the back of a lorry and coming illegally that's not the way it works now is mention to the UK you do not the same thing but it may hire me defensive do not mention when questioned something you later rely on in court decided to stand up for me the centum is just going to give you a quick search okay he did return to run originally under the born fittest removal program a majority of voluntary removals and that program do get a financial assistance to reintegrate back in their own country so he's undone possibly when he comes back in illegally I'm gonna get a refund knowing I knew the owner spoke to on the phone I'm Carl I'm an immigration officer okay if the owner of the carwash can't prove he's made the required checks on the land he could be fined up to ten thousand pounds per employee he's married with the you know English woman right she comes every day here to pick him oh I fully understand that sir I don't have a problem that's exactly what he's told us yeah but what I'm saying is the interesting you should keep record and you should keep a copy for yourself so that if a situation like this arises then you can show us some copies of your write this is not a big business like how long's he been working here yeah about five six months so five six months don't know I wasn't here thing is right don't get me wrong I've been brutal in this country like if I've got it National Insurance number is it actually says on the card so do be aware that it's not proof of identity okay yeah okay so thank you very much Peter I was pointing the owner of the car wash was fined five thousand pounds for employing an illegal worker and even though the man admitted to coming twice into the UK illegally he was later released he remains on reporting conditions while the home office consider his case but the day is young and the team have another car wash in their sights [Applause] in Calais hundreds of migrants gather near the port and live rough in the jungle their camp in the woods outside town in their eyes it's the last stop before realizing their dream to cross the channel illegally and reach the UK with 3,000 lorries passing through every day there are plenty of opportunities to hitch an illicit ride chief immigration officer Tommy richer and her team offer up a line of defense they check trucks waiting to board the ferries they use carbon dioxide probes to detect clandestines breathing inside that's good officer Richard gets word that colleagues have found some clandestine x' how many of you got severed a high co2 reading gave them away hiding in a consignment of alcohol officer Darren's tamati is on hand to escort them off the loan seven found estas at the moment Afghanistan's generally what happens whenever we answer alone they ask us if one chance to go to the UK I don't know why they think that they're gonna get that but they I think they just try it they always seem to be in fairly good spirits but that can change at any point because some of these people you know they can be fairly desperate to get to the UK just to a time kind of you and you please can you move out to the vehicle where do you live in Cali this justice belief in England's it's just a place they all seem to want to go to soon they're not happy to stay here they just want to go to influence why do you want to go to England problem in Afghanistan right yes so why England because I want to get knowledge in England I'm gonna get knowledge yes study okay don't you think you can get knowledge in France yes they are not allowed to stand here to give France okay the belief is in England it's easy to stay for a longer period of time this work there whereas in France I think they have an understanding they don't get to remain in the country for too long they're happy to sort live rough and just try and make make a play further UK okay my friends go through watch your heads because seven clandestines were found hiding in their load the freight company was fined two thousand eight hundred pounds and the driver 1,400 pounds an average of fifty clandestines a day are stopped trying to cross the channel illegally at Calais for as long as it remains difficult to deport them the clandestines will keep returning to the jungle until their next attempt to get past the UK Border Agency [Music] more than 10 million passengers a year arrived at Heathrow Terminal 3 most have a legitimate reason to come into the country a few simple questions at passport control are usually enough to tell if a passengers trying to hide something officer Neal Newberry has been doing the job for four years and knows an unlikely story when he hears one today he stopped an American visitor who was flown in from New York via Toronto the man says he's here for a six month holiday and to spend time with a friend we need to look into your reasons for coming to the UK and a little bit more detail okay that's why you've been stopped today he has no job in the US and little money so officer Newberry suspects the real reason for his visit is to work gonna pop copy your bags up in the bench for the moment place our passenger he's 26 years old and he's only got about $450 on him they've decided it's found all his clothes into four or five suitcases and come to the UK for a really long holiday with just a few hundred dollars on him an American tourist is not allowed to work in Britain officer Newbury wants to know how the passenger will support himself for six months he calls the passengers sponsor the friend he says he's here to stay with I need to understand why are you offering to you know do this for Jason okay thanks for that bye he's known Jason it's only for a couple of years he met in Germany while else bunk well while our sponsor was in the military over there and Jason is over there and visiting friends they met over there they stayed in touch for the last couple of years the sponsor he said he's quite happy to pay for everything which isn't a problem but I'm just I find it's so strange he's prepared to pay for everything someone that he's known for just a couple of years Jason officer Newberry suspects he's not being told the whole truth now he wants to question the passenger about his financial dependence on the sponsor what we don't do violate you first of all my clothes and stuff was taken out like you never had your back so it's not like that not like that my wallet everybody's been long to my wallet on this occasion you're asking to spend a lot of time in this country okay I don't have much money with you I wasn't how do you know how much money I have in my account I don't know so are you happy for me to interview you no but our answer the questions I'm not I'm telling you that I'm not happy but I'm not happy but are you prepared to be interviewed yes I'm prepared can you tell me why you've come to the UK today you know a lot of things been going on at home I just lost my grandfather I don't come from a good upbringing in my neighborhood my friends been killed and all that so I just want to take a vacation where would you stay while you're in the UK with longtime friend of my family come on V 9 will I've known more for 10 years remember where you met him if Tata sees he's going to be supporting you for up to six months while you're in the UK what does have to support you I mean whatever he's going to be for that's that's on him but I got my own money we're also told me that he's only known you for about two years not ten years and he meant you in you meant you in Germany in 2007 now you've told me you've known for ten years and you met in New York so I'm gonna use their words to I've known for a while I've known will for a while ten years maybe not ten years okay maybe not 10 years but where did you meet him in Germany you said you met him in New York I've met a men dude after he's been in New York before yeah it's not what not why I also asked you where did you first meet him he said in New York here's a new your cousin new yoga confusing me with the questions relax anyway didn't he I'm telling ya I've met him in New York a little Menem he said that he met him ten years ago in New York I did not say I met him ten years ago a new surgery making ten years ago in New York I've got it written down here from John that's one of the issues we've got I'm trying to work out what his discrepancies are between yourself and this gentleman who's prepared to support you financially for the next six months I've been a Germany I've been a Stockholm I've been I've been in different places and I've never been violating my clothes have never been drawn out you put all my stuff out then you told me to put all my stuff there I was laying on the safe I'm waitin around look one more anything until I got up in in in a room over here no one's talking to me no one's telling me nothing I'm talking to you now tell me I've been here since 11 o'clock I'm not gonna calm down a pretty but I need to confirm the discrepancies between yourself and will okay that's the issue one the issue that all right I don't know will for ten years I've only known them for a short period of time for a couple of years that's it just so you make in Germany yes it's lying to me you know and when I caught him out that's where he started kicking off a little bit but if I was to act like that in America the way he's been acting with me you know I won't get treated half as well as he's been treated since he arrived and Dominic white appreciates that to be honest so you can throw his arms around as much she wants but it doesn't change the fact that I'm gonna get to the bottom of this coming up another car wash in Stoke where the truth is a gray area 15 years old gray hair and the Bangladeshi graduate would little to show for six years of study business worth that's a module in a post graduate diploma is called business work at Heathrow the American who's arrived for a six-month holiday is waiting to hear if he'll be allowed into the UK the passenger and his sponsor are telling two very different stories officer Newbury updates his boss Sarah Dyson now as big discoveries about how long these two have known each other where they met okay he believes will is still in the military but the sponsor hasn't been in the military for over a year he's estimated three and a half thousand pounds to support our passenger for the next six no I think he's telling me what he thinks I want to hear to land this passenger what I really am more interested in is his current domestic and financial success a he did admit to me it's very hard to get a job in America at the moment even with someone with a college degree the more accurate way of putting it is that he's currently unemployed without any fixed employment in the US okay and he's not intending to work in the near future in the US because it's taken a plane here for six months and I think we should give him one more opportunity to be straight I want you to ask him for a straightforward explanation as to why they two of them cannot agree on how long they've known each other and where they met and then come back and we'll make a final decision okay follow me for a second succeed Nikola phony okay if it's possible can you explain the discrepancies between what you're telling us and what we always been telling us everything was not everything we've just like yo I'm gonna come out there blase blase whatever I didn't know that I was gonna be interrogated like this if it's things like how long you've known each other and when you first met you should know that kind of stuff if you know someone I made it seem like I knew him longer than what but I know I know will why would I take a flight to another country would it do that I don't even know well that's the question that we've been asked in yeah but I'm a grown man I could make my own decisions like it's fine but like I know will I don't know him ten years but I know we'll we have to go by what people tell us people tell us different things I just question everything that they're telling us that's the issue here okay he said he was exaggerating I said why I didn't think I'd be asked I don't think it's just this one discrepancy that concerns me but it's this passengers entire domestic circumstances there is no doubt in my mind I am satisfied that had he thought he could he would have come here to find a job and that was his primary intention in travelling to the UK I don't consider him to be a visitor to this country or a tourist I think yep okay Jason gonna come out a second place just and do a second for me okay well I spoke to chief immigration officer I've told them what you've told me and they decided that on the evidence that we've got from you today and from will today you're gonna be refused entry okay so we're gonna have to return you back to the US on an excitable flight by Toronto the next flight isn't until tomorrow at midday okay gotta go through with them okay so what we're gonna do we're gonna get somewhere for you to get some shut-eye okay you're not going to stay here I've not go where we can to get you somewhere more comfortable the passenger was held in a detention center overnight and put on a flight home the next day [Music] in Stoke the enforcement team are going after illegal workers they've already made one arrest now they're about to surprise the employees of a second calm morning with immigration and police got a warrant to search these premises just need to get in for his identity nationality and see where we go from there all right okay guys come this way the team round up the workers and used two rooms in the office to question them about their immigration status we got here then Moni speak English lads know any English at all okay one employee can speak English and he's happy to interpret his colleagues incredible play day today he says I delivered a boy he's 15 50 no 50 50 50 15 1 5 what was he asking my what good cheese well then come we'll get our one way you threatened again to confirm how all these 15 years old with gray hair he just asked him how he got here next door another Afghani worker is being checked out he just also ladies what's his like the birdies and it appears a common thing you say you arrived last night Laurie and you walk straight in here to a job first thing this morning struggled to get a piece - interpreter so were using the gentleman who's been very helpful we're speaking to this lad here but he claims to have arrived here last night in the early hours of the morning on a lorry from the France and he says he's 15 arresting you're suspicious of entering the UK without leave you'd have to say I think well he may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court you are now each mouth you are now under arrest both men claiming to be 15 are arrested as they've admitted entering the country illegally as they're claiming to be children their ages will have to be assessed by the social services one of the remaining workers is a Pakistani national who is here on a student visa however he admits he is not doing any studying at cleanses only society working here today so it's working or not sodium no you guys paid 15 pound a day yes well that's for 10 hours despite seeking refuge in their own communities illegal immigrants can find life in Britain very different from the dream and for those who believe they've beaten the system reality can hit at any time with the arrival of an enforcement team the afghani who's been so helpful acting as an interpreter is a failed asylum seeker and should have left the UK now he faces the reality of going home in Afghanistan now because my brain is ready from here not for Afghanistan you see you see leave I understand that but you know when you're here illegally there's always a chance but I just wig sleep on that's it you know Manik still young really I mean there were five employees that we've taken for Road this guy who owns this place looking at yeah Oh what was the forty thousand pounds in penalties which is a considerable alone yeah I'm quite satisfied actually five out for more on his work the Afghani worker who helped to interpret won himself a reprieve he put in a fresh application and was given permission to live in the UK the student who was working instead of studying was detained and removed back to Pakistan the two Afghani men claiming to be 15 were assessed to be over 18 one was detained and removed from the UK but as the other had no travel documents he was released on bail and has since absconded the owner was fine twenty thousand pounds but targeting the people who make the serious money out of illegal working is not so easy the people who we encounter they won't give us the names of the agents the red tiles rootsy comment because because these be more scared of the agents than they are of ORS but these people don't see that they're being used and they're actually victims and all of this is a be an exploit - they've been paid peanuts you've paid thousands of pounds to come to the UK unfortunately very rarely we got them to speak to us and to give us better information so we can get to the heads of these organizations instead of just cherry picking these guys off all the time at Heathrow a Bangladeshi man has been stopped at passport control after flying in with his new wife if you can just break down your colleges for me so in 2003 he has been living in the UK as a student for the last six years attending four different colleges but three of the four colleges are now known by the UK border agency to be bogus before his colleges were exposed as fake the passenger got a place on the International Graduate scheme which allows him to work as my colleague explained the situation and the reasons that we've designed you officer tim Wetherill takes on the case he wants to find out if the man's qualifications are genuine he's aware he's in a bit of trouble hence why we've stopped him and I would imagine that from the point of view as there was a couple they're probably quite worried about the fact they're going to be separated them yeah if she qualifies fangshi she will be allowed to proceed there's a lot at stake for the couple the wife is eligible to enter the UK she is American and this is her first time here and she doesn't want to be without her new husband at the moment if you wish to stay in here together you can or you can either proceed downstairs or you can wait outside okay but I'm going to let you know now if it's the case that you are refused entry after we've done our investigations you won't have a choice okay you will be landed and you will be refused so you won't be able to stay together you know I would suggest that you prepare for the worst case scenario if that is a Baker and then you work out what you're going to do because at the end of the day that's your decision yeah the newlyweds will only come into Britain together if the husband can prove he's a genuine graduate but it will take some convincing officer whether all has a thick file of evidence against the college that issued his qualifications we've encountered so many students from this particular college and you know the end of the day most of them have just admitted that they've never actually studied there at all they've never gone to many classes something haven't actually ever been to the college and they just paid the money to get the certificate to get an extension of stay in the UK or I've yet to encounter personally a student who has actually been to the college and studied there he may be the first you never know stranger things have happened but I'm I'm not holding out much hope in this case I'm just going to go through an interview you now ok so just follow me through this way just hit in there grab a seat on the far side we haven't just stopped you on a hunch here as I explained it to you we've got a lot of information about yourself and about the college and about the types of course that run it ok and did you actually attend the Westminster those are computing four days a week so how many modules did you take then what were they all called business work that's the module in the post graduate diploma is called business work okay next so you can remember one of your four modules did you take exams I'm guessing you can probably only remember one or two don't worry about anything not even the ones that you mentioned before this is a 45 page document yeah I've got 45 pages there which proved to me that any degree that obtained from Westminster College of computing is completely bogus you need to start being very honest with me or you're gonna have a much bigger problem than you do now you haven't said I don't believe you the fact is looking back through the college's you've studied that all of them are known to immigration for being problem colleges so I have real issues with the fact that you've ever studied here at all here or when were they thousands check party support ology another college has been closed down fishing boat the certificates yeah yeah it's not looking good for use it coming up clandestines up their game in Calais they've taken sacks from the side of the lorry and then reposition the boxes back across the top of themselves and the newlyweds face an early separation at Heathrow I'm not happy with you you will be detained by immigration until we get to the bottom of that okay at Terminal 3 it's not looking good for the newlyweds who hope to enter Britain together the husband a serial student of bogus colleges has said nothing in interview to convince officer whether all he's a genuine graduate we're happy with your wife she's going to be that through she's not going to be that to stay with you I'm not happy with you you will be detained by immigration until we get to the bottom of it okay so you need to decide where she's going to get that so you're probably not one okay before deciding the passengers fate officer whether all must refer the case to his chief immigration officer Moga far basically I don't believe a word he's saying yeah I mean bottom line I think he's lying through his teeth I don't believe a word he's told me I think we've got substantial information in relation to the fact that he studied her in the institution that has closed down well and here's his wife and then we'll go from there all right Timothy thanks thank you okay right I spoke to my chief immigration officer the wife were happy to announce proceed she's going to be landed she's been granted leave to enter with regards to yourself the decisions been taken by myself and the chief immigration officer to refuse your entry into the UK today okay and to cancel your UK residence permit you have the right to a built-in country or you have the right to appeal from Bangladesh that choice is up to you the husband chooses to appeal from the UK this usually means being held in a detention center while the appeal is considered but there are exceptions considering that he has his wife with him it seems only reasonable to give him temporary admission I don't consider him to be an abscond or at this stage and if he wishes to fight his case then let him take his chances in court she probably doesn't even know what the husband's been up to in the United Kingdom she didn't expect to be stopped at immigration control and then be asked questions by an immigration office as to why she was coming to the UK if if I was the wife of this particular passenger I'd be pretty upset I'd be asking my husband what have you been doing the husband is granted temporary admission but he loses his appeal and has put on a flight back to Bangladesh in Calais the trucks keep on coming they bring 20 million tonnes of freight through the port every year rich pickings for migrants intent on getting into the UK illegally not every truck can be searched and no one knows how many clandestines make it across the channel but nineteen thousand a year get caught at the Calais checkpoints with so many failing they look for ever more ingenious methods of concealment and the search teams have to get - you've come in the lorry and as you can see there's a flat load in here obviously there's a smell of fire this time so we desert equipment on further inspection underneath the boxes here you just see that we've got a purpose-built hide probably the illegals are made themselves they've taken a sacks from the side of the lorry and then obviously reposition the boxes back across the top of themselves they're out there gentlemen where are you from Afghanistan Iraq Iran Afghanistan speak English no speak English we speak a little bit don't you yeah which one of you speaks English gentlemen hello take your hoods down okay what we've actually got in there is officers went in the load is flat well there's a strong smell that we tend to get with the clandestine as soon as we undid the back door you get the smell of the illegals it's an unwashed bonfire smell these people been living rough for months so you know you don't really get that nasty odor then yeah it's always the giveaway some smoke put that out come on first one stay here hey come on mate there are six clandestines all from Afghanistan it looks like some of them are trying to get to Britain on a regular perhaps even daily basis I think he was one of our seventeen yesterday to town the next one coming out yeah I think it is yeah he was the last clandestine that's just come out was one that we detected in a find of 17 in the yogurt lorry yesterday he's got yoga on the back of his coat on his trousers okay we see the same clandestines regularly not every day but we might see them a week or two week period we might see them two or three times and at the moment we're seeing people and they're telling us that they've been living in the jungle for anything come to a year at the moment they're still here we're still finding them so we will seen the same people time and time again fines served on the freight company and driver add up to more than six thousand pounds but the clandestine czar yet again free to leave the port and return to the jungle and as the search teams can't check every truck and with clandestines trying their luck every day there'll always be some who slipped through the net and enter britain illegal

Channel: UK Border Force

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Rating: 4.6399274 out of 5

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Length: 44min 13sec (2653 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 23 2016