UK Border Force - Season 2, Episode 5: The Pig Farmer

25,000 men and women work for the UK Border Agency at home and abroad their job is to check out the wall breakers and imposters who don't have a right to be here they are the UK borders tonight in Lagos a farmer sow seeds of doubt but it's an emergency travel document they're issued within 24 hours that's what I'm surprised in Calais it's good morning Vietnam and a factory in Southampton produces an assembly of illegal workers you're under arrest for being in this country legally and working illegally all right [Music] five a.m. portsmouth immigration officer Peter Campbell is briefing a joint team of police and immigration staff their target is a plastics factory in South Hampton where they believe foreign nationals are being employed as illegal workers and they say very simple when we get in the premises we've got six interviewing officers they will be conducting the interviews everybody else is there in a cover role so the interview officers could just remain here and the rest of you go and find your vehicle 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 premises has never been visited but it's been on the cards for the last about a year and a half at the entails very good for it but it's logistics wise it's a big job so it's getting the staff for it really I think it's gonna be quite a lot of people to deal with so we've got that six offices they're gonna be interviewing then everybody else is gonna be in a cover role today so it'll be they'll be my role just to be where I'm needed really something something the first stage of the mission is to seal off the escapements the team's split up one group surrounds the perimeter as another moves inside the factory guys through immigration he 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 everybody who's on the premises into a sterile area so at the moment with this China cover everybody until we get ourselves set up to interview people think we didn't lose anybody nobody escaped or anything so it's good we're quite smoothly we just got to the rest of it now okay what's your name write it for me there so that's setting them sing yeah yeah and you're Indian 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 what's your entitlement to be here yeah yeah I know you came in 96 oh did you come in 96 you flew in in 96 did you yeah have you got a visa work permit yeah when did you get there where's your passport they're at your house right so how long was your visa for me yeah but are you here legally now I'm really good no are you officer Jones isn't getting any clear answers and neither is officer Jody Dedmon language you speak the man claims to be Greek but says he can speak a little Punjabi for a great power raised in Greece yeah a throw but you're telling me that your you've got a Greece Greek possible why did they send it back to Greece this temple idea beyond your garden there okay it sent back for renewal how am I going to believe that your Greek national when you can prove that you can't show me that your great national passport that you can get the photocopy of the bar back within 15 days well no I need it now basically what he stated to me is that he's a Greek national but he which means he's a European national and he doesn't need a visa to just you can measure Lila freely and work freely in the United Kingdom the problem we have is he has no identification to prove that to me yeah what do you want me to do with him then we haven't arrested them don't go down performing yet any other fellow if you're gonna arrest him alright where's your purse where's your documents you speak English yesterday's supplied to me where are your documents nikka more suspicious okay okay 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 oh I'm asking you and officer Pownall questions a pregnant lady at Lagos every when you went for your American visa did you tell the visa officer that you're pregnant 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 closed 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 - why do you know 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 him 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 it is 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 win 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 you'll have to explain how he got his passport stamped when he was clearly still in the UK 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 and are you married yeah I believe are it and how many children do you have two little boys two sons yes my gene is for boys I don't know father I noticed from your passport that you last entered the UK on the 28th of October the way yeah how long did you stay I stay almost five months five months yeah so when did you return to Nigeria max don't you I'm sorry much better but your these are expired on this the visa expired on the 7th of December 2000 you yeah so you breached your conditions no something there tell me what happened yeah the bartender said why I travel we deposit not mine his name is I can let me at the table yeah yeah we have to come back on the twelve of the November but I changed my mind to still write about this yes what was the terrible thing that happened yeah I was coming back you came out with my jacket my jacket I'm a passport and it'll was in my jackets yes when we turned up the passport for standing at the immigration office yet and you know what applies yes you only killed two people will be sitting down you give you a password to default facing is sending to the next to stop the next person that's time who call you when you want to analyze so by the point of an ANOVA the discoverer is not even of the passport and I pass forward with him does your cousin look anything like here then not really not really not really so the Nigerian immigration officer didn't look at the bio-data page and compare the photographs with you because I thought deliveries hours when decomp yeah well they've already done this topic 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 are two state long or because of that issue and in took me three months to detect emergency travel certificate that was fun that was so devastating to apply for my destiny promise type integer and pass it to three months while a lot of things to be a I have so many things water but it's an emergency travel document sure they're issued within 24 hours that's what I'm surprised you need to see the crowd I need to go through the website to download after that loading you need to be living in thousand eight three months is so disgusting that's my area of as I said I need to refer the case to the interference manager so if you'd like to wait outside please thank you yeah well he's attempted to explain why the reentry stamp shows the 21st to November he says that his cousin took his passport back to Nigeria with him and got the Nigerian Immigration Service to stamp them I don't find that very credible myself unless they love to them I don't think I should lie about any questions I have to them the absolute truth of what happened and I don't need it you can only go visit I don't see any reservation 2,500 miles away and officer Dave Jones is still attempting to get answers from his interviewee yeah 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 using title to work so what did you show him you've got a definitely surance card yeah where's that okay show me yes where do you get this from your solicitor yeah your sister baby this why are you entitled to be here and work who gave you permission to be here and work where job here at xB everything officer Jones will now check his immigration status on the home office database so it came when sorry trace December it is he is he face yeah lovely Cheers Ellison you in the United Kingdom illegally and you're not entitled to work okay you know that though don't you you know that don't you you know you're not entitled to work and you know you're here illegally don't you actually arrived in the United Kingdom in December 9 th and he was arrested and served as an illegal entrant a document abuse he then absconded and he's been in absconded ever since he could claim asylum he's failed but he's been absconded since 98 so he's going down the station and they'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 to you in a minute 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 oversteer and the other ten 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 employers far where he's keeping all the details of his work force and it looks like one of my colleagues actually seized it so what we take this back to the office two wonders check certainly for the people that we've arrested an employer must check and keep copies of a workers 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 to the police stations the remaining officers here we're gonna go and 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 hope you can find some documents okay all right what's your headline do mate 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 262 they they didn't have keys for us so it's a case of just knocking and receive anybody answers today can you happy yeah inside the house a team encounter two men who are both foreign nationals and immediately admit to being in the UK illegally and how did he enter the UK okay you are now under arrest you didn't have to say anything but it may harm your defense if you do not mention when questioned something you later rely on in court anything you do say may be given in evidence the team have found more than they bargained for sir both men are arrested for entering the UK on the back of a lorry now their rooms can be searched to myself my colleagues are going to look around yeah okay what else your questions nobody's on the end oh no no if you show us the paperwork we don't need to look the Cardo can leave the Sun sighs I only love my beggar the man claims to have no paperwork so the team will have to search the entire room sometimes these things happen we're going to our home address and also we've got the pass gun here because we've arrested the person that provided this as their home address their place of residence so when we come back here we've encountered another to working here I've 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 nextdoor the officers of 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 on his pay slips so we know we're in the right room so hopefully we'll put a passport born you don't all these pull in the third bedroom officer bill has found an asylum registration card which appears to give the owner the right to work in the UK this this particular one it's got employment permitted and for 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 first bank account fits our card usually they are cards I've got an appointment prohibited on them you'll see on this one it's got employment permitted so always make sure have a second look anyway if it's got permitted on it there's very few of them do particularly bad and that's not all officer Viv's also found a fake passport says an Indian national it seems it's pulling apart and as you can see there appears to be something else underneath see the dough one page has been stuck on to another next door the deception continues another national insurance card is it he's saying it's moody saying supplied by a previous occupant I wait for air seeps and sees the paperwork fake passports and forged documents of 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 19 the port of calais northern France for thousands of illegal immigrants travelling 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 aware the lorries wait to board the ferry it's the last chance for the teams to find stowaways before they reach the UK so huge pace 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 find you've got what Charlie tell us went God Sam please take testing bags off you hate to take a plastic bag off you hate taking off you hate safety are you well no all good nationals in the co2 probes approved right and ten 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 always covered in black bags covering their heads as you could say from this footage you got and then we just wanted him to get some air here they're nice people they're good there's no trouble to us they're gonna be fine here we'll just keep me as where we get and the ethical tender 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 ten people do that at the same time it's a lot of co2 it all comes together you get this massive readings some areas of Vietnam are considered to have an unsatisfactory human rights record by the home of 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 grateful 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 shouldn't be those cousins passports death threats so I believe there's an attempt of 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 24-48 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 question as if you wish yeah yeah 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 not the and I have to sniff five five of us because I need to call in my passport back and I was really early days to show I'm do not possible what did you do for the three months while you were waiting for this emergency travel document - the issue belly now was what you ate for 24 hours a day they're monitoring my business yeah okay have you been arrested and fingerprinted by the police in the UK myself hmm I'm asking you ah yeah except for driving with my national that sense yeah so you have been yes when was this I can't even ride it's been a long time I can't even ride should be for four years when you were arrested by the police what name did you give them my name I added by oh well I have evidence that you gave a different name can and only then they told me and they said I gave yes yes please it's patty Whaley either by oh no patty wailing the miss calls it then 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 1961 is it before well again I have evidence that you gave the police in the UK your date of birth is 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 I'm sorry dude that my name I did by oh man call it they thought that if that's never changed okay and what was this white edenia police arrest you well I was I used the extra small tire of nitrogen to tie the emergency tire and I was arrested that's fine thank you very much you just like to wait outside again exactly it's the end of the interview and the man has failed to explain his deception so and obviously to refuse the use of deception from obtaining a stamp by deception which appears genuine I believe it is genuine and obviously refusing and referring to the police indeed but I've referred your applications of 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 from in your passport also you overstayed in the United Kingdom by more than 28 days that was the investment that you should have attempted to regulate your position your status in the UK not having I realized that your visa had expired and that you were in the UK illegally that's a copy feud with your appeal papers okay they will give you back the documents and your passport okay thank you the gentleman holding his passport is inspector Lowell 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 expatriates and Western based companies have been the targets of kidnapping Sarah Pownall 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 soft living in a bit of a pressure cooker at times when you just want some some independence of freedom but most of the time everybody gets on and if 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 they made land 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 traveling to and from Matala Mohammed Airport 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 adviser to the airlines to explain maybe some of these technical difficulties and form them of any current trends with the dark 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 fine 2,000 pounds which is a hefty load for the airline to face so it's in their interest obviously to work with us and ensuring that everybody's got the right documentation over five million people travel through Murtala Mohammed Airport every year at the boarding gate the passengers are given a final check this is the last chance to spot imposters before they reach the UK I'll show you boarding pass it League guys we're not taking Arsenal supporters today I'm alright if it's a Liverpool zone okay so no no Sarah has been asked by the airline staff to look at a woman's visa the woman does not want to be identified [Music] given to the US before okay approximately when 1975 okay when you went for your American visa did you tell the DS referee so that you were pregnant is there any reason why you didn't tell the babies our facility perfect a 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 the baby's born in the UK don't automatically qualify for a British passport for babies born in the US do automatically qualify for 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 16th of May so she's got three weeks between her return dates due dates which makes her 37 weeks which is over every airline limit the whole policy on how advanced you can be but travel is different without a chairman I was gonna say I remember what your I think it's about 33 or 34 to 32 well her laughter says 33 so she's already know when she's coming back again on your airline she'll be 30 salary which the woman is in breach of the airline's policy but as she has a valid US visa Sarah must now contact the US Embassy hi it's Sarah I'm at the airport at the moment I just want to do 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 trouble Sarah now has to wait for a reply from the US Embassy but the flight leaves in ten 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 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 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 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 I'm sorry I know it's frustrating but if you can go back to here because my mom Anambra you madam no please don't back me he's nice don't bug me no the pregnant woman did not make it to the USA when she failed to turn up at the American Embassy a visa was cancelled coming up a massive find at Calais got at least another six so we're gonna be upwards of 20 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 and Bridget work alongside the newly formed Cali Response Team what we're going to is is laying won 7-3 then at the berth 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 at least 25 baked things 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 to offices inside so if we go up this side out with the center of the tires and the front as well to visually check the vehicle but there was a smell there was a possible entrance looked in these two sets of tires found a group of 10 in the first group second sanitized another nine or 10 P plate in there 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 then I'll get the bottom ones oh crap keep away good man yeah you can pull it back more now just cuz we're gonna pull the curtain back is that okay we don't need to follow a peek at smoke because there's so many in these tires space in there so that's a check when they everyone's there just check all the toys do let's do it we need to find method of entry oh there was no security - oh it was the stairways are all Vietnamese they are the third most encountered nationality at Cali behind eretrians and Afghans know one minute one minute one minute good man one minute where's your shoes are down there I don't know why they took the shoes off but they did they were all in here ten 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 so the last one of the A's and it's our sixteen yeah so far we've got at least another six so we're going to be upwards of twenty they're all carry in 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 including in five females age how old are you that age 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 Vietnamese together the gentleman always the mother of the lady so again they'll be very protective of him and we had one English speaker which was great so we've got all the details of unique great fine they see are a great five in total 24 Vietnamese people were found hiding in the lorry and handed over to the French authorities the driver was eventually fined 2,400 pounds [Applause] you [Music] you

Channel: UK Border Force

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Id: ZegXsWv36Sg

Length: 43min 58sec (2638 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 23 2016