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Bosses exploiting illegal immigrants on Teesside


ILLEGAL immigrants are being cruelly exploited by bosses on Teesside.

Last year, 60 illegal workers - including 35 from Bangladesh, 10 from China and 10 from India - were caught during raids on restaurants and takeaways.

In addition, two were working as taxi drivers, two at car washes, two as market traders and another two were found in factories.

Among the establishments targeted by the UK Border Agency last year was Marios Takeaway on Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough, where two illegal workers were collared.

And Lotus House in High Street, Loftus, was fined £15,000 last year under illegal working legislation.

In total, immigration officers arrested 1,840 illegal workers in blitzes across the North over the last three years, slapping their bosses with at least £4m in fines for flouting the law.

Wallace Wilson of the Border Agency said they are slowly winning the war against illegal operations thanks to improvements in intelligence and work with employers.

But he added that a hardcore group of employers, typically in workplaces using casual labour, continue to flout the law by taking advantage of vulnerable foreigners desperate for work.

“Employers like these are exploitative, taking advantage of people in difficult situations who are usually pretty desperate for work,” he said.

“There are villains and victims all the down the line.”

The local immigration team has stepped up its crackdown on illegal operations across the North, orchestrating co-ordinated raids in a bid to stamp out the practice at least once a week.

“What we are seeing now is hardcore organisations who continue to break the rules,” said Mr Wilson.

“It tends to be operations that use temporary labour, and it’s not unusual to find workers living on the premises and it’s not unusual for them to be charged for the privilege either.

“For the employers it means they have staff ready to work any time of day or night, should there be a rush on a job.

“Bosses often keep their passports too. For a start that’s illegal but also it creates an issue for us in terms of needing to documents should they be eligible for return to their home countries.

“It’s a crime against those being exploited, against the taxpayer and also against the employers who do play the game.”

Last year, Leyakt Sajawal, who employed a team of Chinese illegal immigrants to tend his cannabis farms in Teesside and Yorkshire was ordered to pay back almost £500,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Sajawal, of St Lawrence Glebe, Tinsley, Sheffield, lived the high life through the illicit business, benefiting to the sum of £2,137,760. He was jailed for four and a half years in 2009

source: http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/

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George Carlin

Should be PH bosses exploiting immigrats all over the UK cos thats how it is, I think I'm going to re-nounce being English soon, I don't like what English stands for anymore, we used to be the guy that said no fair, but now we are a plague of f'd up people that look and walk funny, talk funny and think everything is ok as long as there is a profit in it, this is probably normal to anyone under 30 but me I'm older and have seen better people here,

I recently was doing some mafia research and guess which country looks the other way to illegal activity more than any other due to the profit it generates, yup, good old Blighty, maybe I've just been asleep all these years and we have always been a pile of manure, who knows.

If they're Illegal Immigrants they shouldn't be here anyway. I've no sympathy for them.

I agree.......but how did they get licenses????

CC

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George Carlin

Did they physically have licences? or were they more likely driving illegally?

The British Empire didn't get to be as big as it was by being 'nice'. Having some form of control over approx 20% of the world population and 25% of the land at it's peak. Some may say 'you reap what you sow' or 'what goes around comes around'

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We never ruled Poland, the Baltic states, Russia or China..yet we have a lot of them here, they were never sowed by us.

Karma is not an exact science but you should look at as 'if we take over countries and people, then we can't complain when it happens to us'

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I hope you write to the law commission with your karma based licensing policy, based loosely around 'My name is Earl'.

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George Carlin

You been sniffing Pataks Karma curry powder again toots??

Well they're doing it to the legal ones as well tbh, it's all becoming the last seats in the final lifeboat to leave the Titanic tbh, I'm sick of the way ppl treat each other in todays world, we're going backwards instead of bringing the rest forwards,

Living proof, Harry Redknapp, doesn't look like he's getting the England job and an honest man is, so all the know all's are now moaning about it and labelling Hodgeson the second choice etc, well for me I'd rather have a losing honest man that a winning crook, not that HR would win anything, if you know him you know he's good when he was a world pool to pick from, with what is available from the England pool right now he'd fail, and he won't give kids a chance either, and dare you fall out with him over anything he holds grudges, the man isn't the loveable rogue uncle type he portrays himself as at all, he's a greed driven individual who pays the best lawyers to keep his ass out of jail.

I'm too late with that one cos Karma got there first and fecked up all the solicitors, that's why we have the advertising we have now for the ambulance chasers and the no win no fee sh*te

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Councils are not obliged to check the immigration status of applicants which why there are large numbers of taxi drivers here on student visas rumoured to be in the region of 10000 nationally

I think that councils should ask the immigration status on the application and also the employment status I think if you take a job as a "self employed" taxi driver then councils should be obliged to notify the inland revenue of who they issue licenses to or that an applicant should have to obtain a registration document off the inland revenue as a condition of license

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But surely the council would have wanted a copy of their UK driving license...and they couldn't get one of those if they were Illegal Immigrants.

I think that you are getting ahead of yourself!

1st of all you need people in the job who know what they are doing!! and then if you can find them they need to stop treating the job + the drivers with such contempt, to then conduct proper interviews + the right man/woman actually fits the job..............then a lot of stuff would get cleared up.

But!! That will not happen anytime soon as there is a lot of money rolling in from drivers (legal and illegal), that keeps owners of P.H companies VERY rich, and some nice TOP jobs in the council oiling the money wheels for them...................in the meantime the hamster keeps on running on and on and on the wheel, in this case the wheel of life. A bit of "Oh look what we have done here - and look of what we have done there", basically appeasement/lip service..........and it will all carry on.

It was once said by one of our European neighbours that we are "The Dirty Man of Europe"............how very very true, in more ways than one.

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