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5,000 illegal immigrants working
as security guards in UK's most sensitive buildings
JAMES SLACK
UK
Daily Mail
Monday November 12, 2007
Five thousand illegal immigrants have been cleared to work as
security guards at some of the UK's most sensitive buildings.
In yet another Government blunder, the Home Office has allowed
the immigrants to take up posts at ports and airports - and even
at Whitehall - despite having no legal right to be in the country.
And checks on the man who is in charge of guarding Gordon Brown's
prime ministerial car against terrorist booby-traps revealed he
was in the country illegally.
The Security Industry Authority (SIA) said it was not its job
to even ask applicants seeking jobs protecting the public if they
were illegal immigrants.
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The only checks carried out were on a person's past behaviour
or for any criminal record.
Since the situation came to light in July, officials admitted
as many as 5,000 illegal immigrants have been given SIA licences
over the past three years. It is feared they also include up to
six people working at the Metropolitan Police.
The latest fiasco follows revelations last year that the Home
Office had itself employed illegal immigrants on at least seven
separate occasions.
It employed the workers both directly and indirectly, including
five Nigerians who were caught working as cleaners within days
of John Reid taking charge of the department last May.
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