‘Deport them!’ Border control expert SLAMS Labour’s illegal worker crackdown – ‘It is nothing special’
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced a clampdown on immigrants working illegally and former police officer and border control expert Henry Bolton said that she should just “deport them.”
Speaking to GB News, Bolton said: “The measures that are being implemented now are measures that aren’t new. These are measures that were brought in by Robert Jenrick when he was immigration minister on the 8th of August.”
He added: “It’s been a failure, not of Brexit, but of our own leaders, our own government, both the Conservative government and now the Labour government.
“I don’t expect the Labour Government to really seize this opportunity with both hands and huge enthusiasm. So I don’t think it’s going to happen.
“What needs to happen is that we actually need to start deporting people.”
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“But to do that, you need a coordinated approach to agreements with the countries that these people come from.
“You need a national strategy that pulls all the various strands of government together, that creates a unified effort against directed objectives from the Prime Minister, from the cabinet.
“So what we’ve not had up until now is the diplomatic effort of the Foreign Office, combined with the operational efforts of the Home Office and so on, working together as one team, we’ve seen two different teams working sort of in a disjointed manner.
“I hope the new Border Security Commander has the vision, the ability, the competence, the knowledge and the experience to actually pull that to and the authority to pull that together.”
This comes as hundreds of employers face hefty fines after at least 75 illegal migrants were held in a Home Office blitz on “dodgy” businesses.
The arrests came mostly from car washes and nail bars.
In a statement Yvette Cooper said: “It is wrong that dodgy employers can work hand-in-glove with the smuggling gangs, who risk lives to bring them here illegally, and push them into off-the-books employment.
“These workers are sold complete lies by the gangs before being made to live and work in appalling conditions for a pittance.
“We are determined to put a stop to this, which is why we have launched crackdowns such as this.
“While this operation marks an important step forward, our commitment to tackling this issue is ongoing.
“We will ensure those who break the rules face the full force of the law.”