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Illegal swoop (1)

01 January 1991

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Illegal swoop

70 people were arrested in one of the biggest ever immigration
swoops, `Operation Elgar', in which over 100 addresses were
raided in a joint immigration service and Met police operation
in April. 24 of the 70, mainly Ghanaian and Nigerian, were
treated as illegal entrants, and 46 more were detained for
questioning. Many of those detained worked for Southwark Council,
who commented defensively that the council checked all employees'
national insurance numbers and that checks on immigration status
were not the employer's responsibility anyway. The Council did
not make the point that those arrested worked as hard as
everybody else and paid the same taxes. Guardian 28.4.94

Statewatch, vol 4 no 3, May-June 1994

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