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UK: Daily Telegraph article concerning new powers given to police and immigration officials

01 December 2008

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Police and immigration officers will be able to stop Britons and demand they prove their identity under proposed sweeping new powers (Daily Telegraph, link) and Full-text: Draft Immigration and Citizenship Bill (pdf): See Clause 26.

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