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UK: Burger chain holds fake training day to shop immigrant workers to the Home Office

29 July 2016

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"Burger restaurant chain Byron has come under fire after it has been reported that in early July its London managers held a training exercise that served as a front for immigration control to interview and arrest a number of its migrant staff members.

The Spanish language website El Iberico quotes a source from within Byron that says on 4 July, Byron migrant workers from as many as 15 of its branches were brought to a secret location under the belief that they were undergoing training. Within minutes, immigration officers arrived with photographs and names of migrant staff members, predominantly from Latin America."

See the story: Burger chain holds fake training day to shop immigrant workers to the Home Office (The Canary, link)

And see: Protests taking place across London over Byron Burgers treatment of migrant employees (Migrants' Rights Network, link)

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