UK Border Agency Loses Battle Against Snoop Dogg

Posted on: March 9th, 2010 Posted by Helen Young

One of the most well known controversial rappers in the United States, Snoop Dogg, has just recently won the latest round in a long running battle with the UK Border Agency. This win allows Snoop Dogg to be allowed to enter into the country yet again.
Snoop Dogg is 38 years ol,d and his real name [...]

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UK Border Agency Starts Internal Review

Posted on: March 4th, 2010 Posted by Kate Welch

It seems that recently the UK Border Agency has launched an internal review of itself after a former employee revealed how a staff member sang the Um Bongo advertising jingle to a Congolese asylum seeker. The former employee, Louise Perrett, went on to tell the Commons home affairs select committee that one colleague had asked [...]

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Reports now show that six people have been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking in the North East. Officers from the UK Border Agency North East immigration crime team were called to North Shields Ferry Terminal last Friday after the staff identified a 15-year-old Armenian girl who had arrived on the ferry from Holland. She [...]

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Louis Perrett, an asylum seeker worker, has now claimed that she was advised at the UK Border Agency office in Cardiff to refuse difficult asylum claims. These claims suggest that the UK Border Agency tricked, mistreated and humiliated asylum seekers. The staff working at the UK Border Agency are now to be investigated in [...]

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Asylum seekers costing £5 million a week in housing

Posted on: January 29th, 2010 Posted by Kate Welch

The British taxpayer is forking out close to £5 million each week to house asylum seekers according to new figures released in parliament. This represents a doubling of costs for housing in just two years.
The UK government paid £230 million in the last financial year to accommodate immigrants and families seeking asylum, a significant rise [...]

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Live coral seized at Manchester Airport

Posted on: January 28th, 2010 Posted by Kate Welch

In yet another case of officials racing the clock to protect the environment staff at Manchester Airport were deployed to deal with a very large and very living problem – that of how to handle over a tonne of coral imported from Indonesia.
Officers from the UK Border Agency were the first to discover the living [...]

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Illegal workers targeted in Kent factory arrests

Posted on: January 27th, 2010 Posted by Anna Rowlands

The UK Border Agency has announced that six arrests at a Kent juice factory have been made in relation to illegal immigrant workers and breaches of UK immigration law. The latest incident shows once again that the UKBA and local authorities are continuing their crackdown on immigration as the run-up to this year’s election sees [...]

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UK allows immigrant killer to remain

Posted on: January 25th, 2010 Posted by Adam Owens

The Home Office has advised that an immigrant from Iraq who murdered two doctors has won his right to remain in the UK.
Paranoid schizophrenic, 41-year-old Laith Alani, was afforded the right to stay in Britain following a ruling by the judge in the case that if sent back to his homeland he would represent a [...]

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