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Illegal workers arrested in shop raid

FOUR illegal workers were arrested in a raid on a supermarket.

Immigration officers raided the Londis store in London Road, Headington, Oxford, on Tuesday – in an operation to see if staff were entitled to work in the UK.

The raid came after a tip-off, it emerged last night.

Four Indian men, aged between 21 and 36, were arrested for immigration offences.

One of the four was also arrested on suspicion of possessing a counterfeit Belgian passport and National Insurance card. Two of the men remain in immigration detention, awaiting removal from the country.

A third man, aged 24, was charged with fraud and ID Cards Act offences, and appeared at Oxford Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

He was remanded in custody to appear at Oxford Crown Court on August 7.

The fourth man was granted immigration bail while the UK Border Agency gets travel documents to remove him.

The UK Border Agency said the store owner faced a fine of up to £40,000 unless he could prove the correct checks were carried out on the men.

Insp Dick Stratton, of the UK Border Agency, said: “We’re committed to removing people who have no right to be in the UK. As long as there are illegal jobs, the UK will be an attractive place for illegal immigrants. This operation should serve as a warning for those who break the law.”

Businesses who fail to carry out checks when employing migrant workersface fines of up to £10,000 per illegal employee.

Comments(6)

Roger Casement says...
6:51pm Wed 29 Jul 09

"Insp Dick Stratton, of the UK Border Agency, said: “We’re committed to removing people who have no right to be in the UK. As long as there are illegal jobs, the UK will be an attractive place for illegal immigrants."
No , Dick, I'm afraid that's the logic of the Warneford. Your job is to go round and throw them straight out. We taxpayers don't pay Londis to detect illegals, we pay YOU, Dick, old boy, clerk and public servant, beneficiary of a gold plated pension.

burro says...
8:18pm Wed 29 Jul 09

Immigration bail!!! oh I see he will hang around and wait for them to call him to court or whatever, then be taken to Heathrow and bid a happy farewell to UK charity shop. Unless of course he disappears in between- then what?

Grundon Skipp says...
10:04pm Wed 29 Jul 09

Here are soem interesting facts:

'The Home Office is using £400,000 of taxpayers' money to help pay for a fly-on-the-wall TV series promoting the work of immigration staff.
The cash will be spent on Sky's eight-part show Border Force, which focuses on the UK Border Agency and its war on illegal immigrants.'

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Now, if you've seen this shameless piece of propaganda (and having spent £400,000 of YOUR MONEY on it- you DID watch it- didn't you?) it basically shows how thousands of (usually Pakistanis/ Indians/ Bangladeshis) saunter into the UK on student visas issued to bogus 'colleges', or how Afghanis, Iraquis and various others stow away in lorries in Calais, and once caught are dusted down, given tea and biccies and then released to the French police, who escort them out of the port of Calais and into freedom, where they simply try again and again.

Another theme is where our border force heroes 'raid' a business and find dozens of illegal workers- who are then given a damned good letting off by telling them that they must report to an immigration centre to be deported- but guess what? Yup- hardly any of them do.

So we've pay border guards to nanny illegal immigrants found in lorries; we pay investigators to find illegals in the Country; we pay £400,000 on a TV program to show what a jolly good job they do... but we don't actually REMOVE many of the ONE MILLION illegals estimated to be in the UK.

Think about it: Thats's 1 in 60 people- taking up housing; taking jobs; undercutting legitimate jobs; paying no tax... it's a joke.

tom cunningham says...
3:06pm Thu 30 Jul 09

its about time the border control visited stagecoach and seehow many of their drivers are meant to be here,its like the united nations at their garage in oxford

faatmaan says...
4:05pm Thu 30 Jul 09

how can anybody report suspected illegals without being accused of racism or be hit with arrest for not obeying laws relating to the matter of race, its only a matter of time before a do gooder says otherwise.These people should be turned around at point of entry, if they claim asylum send them to their point of entry into the EU, I bet the numbers would quickly drop.If I arrived at an American airport for instance without the right documentation, I woud be put on the next plane back from where i come from. The channel tunnel should be beefed up with every vehicle passing through it thoroughly checked, the harder it gets the less will come.

geff says...
11:50pm Sat 1 Aug 09

Why do the Goverment hype up such a small thing, it is common knowledge that the vast majority of retail stores / restaurants employ cheap labour as that is how these business's survive ! If they REALLY want to remove ILLEGAL workers from the UK, here is a TIP OFF !!!

Simply walk into any privately owned restaurant/ retail / building related business / Factory cash and carry etc. And you will find plenty of so cslled illegal workers !!!

The goverment knows exactly where to look, however it chooses to make a little PR to keep the public happy !!!

Who exactly is doing all the menial jobs in Oxford ????? It certainly is not British Passport Holders !!!!

Who built Terminal 5 ?

Why can the cleaning staff at Travel Lodge Pear Tree not speak English ?

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