Muslims?
B
Security staff employed illegally
The Home Office has admitted illegal immigrants have been mistakenly cleared
for jobs as security staff.
Ministers have ordered new checks to be carried out on hundreds of thousands
of people vetted by the Security Industry Authority over the past three
years.
The Home Office says the SIA did not check applicants were entitled to work
in the UK before granting licences.
The Tories said the system was "not fit for purpose" but the government said
the new checks had "strengthened" it.
According to the Sunday Mirror, illegal immigrants are working at airports,
ports and the Metropolitan Police.
The newspaper claimed 5,000 illegal immigrants were estimated to have been
employed in posts such as security guards and bouncers.
Removal from UK
The Home Office said the SIA, which it set up to regulate the security
industry, took immediate action as soon as they became aware some
licence-holders had been employed illegally.
"From July this year, all new applicants have been granted a licence only if
they are entitled to seek work in the UK," a department spokesman said.
Public confidence in the government's handling of immigration will
take yet another hammering
Nick Clegg, Lib Dems
He added that checks on all existing licence-holders will be completed
shortly and anyone found to be working illegally would have their licence
taken away and would face removal from the UK.
The spokesman stressed employers were legally responsible for ensuring their
staff were entitled to work in Britain.
He added that ID cards were being introduced for foreign nationals in 2008
which would "strengthen the fight" against illegal immigration.
Shadow immigration minister Damian Green said: "What is extraordinary about
this latest Home Office fiasco is that we have been through this before.
"Last year the Home office discovered it was employing illegal immigrants as
cleaners in the immigration department itself.
"From these new revelations it looks like no effective action was taken to
check who has access to some of the most sensitive buildings in this
country.
"It looks like the Home Office is still not fit for purpose."
Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg said: "Public confidence
in the government's handling of immigration will take yet another hammering
with this revelation.
"It is impossible to promote the merits of a fair and effective immigration
system as long as the government mixes headline-grabbing populism with
serial administrative incompetence."
The SIA has cleared 250,000 applicants since it first started issuing
licences in 2004.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7089
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