UK: Government Mole Sabotages Immigrant Deportation Raids Crackdown

Daily Mail
June 5, 2014

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There is a mole at whitehall that has leaked the document listing where all the raids were to take place. Labour MP Keith Vaz who works there definitely had a motive, as he said he was concerned that the document listed ‘particular nationalities and races’.

A Whitehall mole has sabotaged hundreds of raids against immigrants working illegally in Britain by leaking sensitive government documents to activists, it was claimed last night.

Small businesses suspected of illicitly employing foreigners were tipped off after a radical protest group was covertly handed the hit-list.

The Home Office launched a two-week crackdown – codenamed Operation Centurion – to target workplaces, including care homes, hotels and restaurants and construction sites that were believed to be employing illegal immigrants.

But the Anti Raids Network, a left-wing pressure group, said it had warned the companies to expect officials to bang on the door after being passed the paperwork by the mole, Channel 4 News claimed.

The leak threatens to scupper the crackdown by allowing illegal workers to escape capture. The Anti Raids Network said it was justified because the swoops were ‘racially-profiled and unfair’ – a claim the Home Office said was ‘abhorrent and completely without foundation.’ It said the raids were ‘intelligence-led’.

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Hundreds of raids have been messed up by the leak.

Activists said they had seen 225 pieces of operational intelligence in what they claimed was the biggest Home Office leak in recent years.

One document seen by Channel 4 News highlighted nationalities in specific industries who are being targeted.

One entry described Nigerians working illegally in barber shops and another talked about laundries employing Eritrean nationals, described as ‘not the best nationalities for us, but a new sector nonetheless’.

The documents reportedly said there were phone stalls in Northern Ireland which ‘appear to have foreign nationals working on them, some of which don’t speak fantastic English’, and there were ‘nail bars with a Vietnamese connection’.

Yesterday morning, men waiting to be picked up in Ilford, Essex, for cash-in-hand work on construction sites were arrested as part of the operation – suggesting the sabotage might not have worked.

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Activists said they had seen 225 pieces of operational intelligence in what they claimed was the biggest Home Office leak in recent years.

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