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Most illegal immigrants enter the UK conventionally and then do not leave when visas expire. There are certainly some hiding in the back of lorries etc - but i
by Ntrails 13y ago
Most illegal immigrants enter the UK conventionally and then do not leave when visas expire. There are certainly some hiding in the back of lorries etc - but it's not the majority.
So fingerprinting them means for sure that we know they came in. I'm not sure what that achieves though?
- rjsw 13y agoIt would remove the current Catch-22 situation where they can be shown to be here illegally but can't be deported due to lack of a passport indicating their country of origin. I don't know whether the problem is big enough to warrant this step though.