25 Bangladeshis held in UK
The British government, which recently imposed various restrictions and introduced stricter laws on immigrants, arrested 25 Bangladeshi nationals for working illegally in the UK.
“UK Border Agency enforcement operations in the month of July have led to the arrest of 25 Bangladeshi and action is underway to return all those apprehended to Bangladesh,” says a press release from British High Commission in Dhaka on Thursday.
Enforcement operations in West London, Warwickshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire and Herefordshire found the 25 men working illegally in restaurants, it said.
“We are cracking down on companies that employ illegal workers and fail to carry out proper checks on passports and other identity documents.
“Any business that takes on a foreign national without permission to work is breaking the law and faces a heavy fine and possible prosecution,” a UK Border Agency spokesperson said.
A fine of up to £10,000 will be imposed on employers for every illegal worker found in their business, unless the employers can prove that they carried out the checks on the employees.
It may be mentioned that the UK Border Agency operates a single force to protect the UK's borders, control migration, prevent border tax fraud, smuggling and immigration crime and take decisions on asylum applications.
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