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Yvette Cooper orders raids on car washes and beauty salons to tackle 'illegal immigration' (feddit.uk)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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She's written exclusively in The Sun, which I've left out the URL field because it's The Sun. Here's what she wrote:

We cannot pretend everything is OK. Not when criminal gangs are making millions out of dangerous small boat crossings that undermine our border security and put lives at risk.

We have directed Immigration Enforcement to intensify their operations over the summer, with a focus on employers who are fuelling the trade of criminal gangs by exploiting and facilitating illegal working here in the UK – including in car washes and in the beauty sector.

And we are drawing up new plans for fast track decisions and returns for safe countries.

Most people in this country want to see a properly controlled and managed asylum system, where Britain does its bit to help those fleeing conflict and persecution, but where those who have no right to be in the country are swiftly removed.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, there's a lot of concern about nail bars and car washes - it's possible some working there are under a kind of indentured servitude or just plain slavery, and car washes in particular are known for being used for money laundering (no pun intended).

[–] feedum_sneedson 12 points 4 months ago

The point everyone else is likely to miss here. Both of these are poorly regulated havens for modern slavery.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

At a time of rising prices and cost of living pressures, I like my local £5 hand car wash and I'm not particularly curious about the immigration status of the guys that work there.

The solution to illegal immigration is to create far easier routes for legal immigration, so that the service sector can recruit the workers it needs to provide the services the public want at the prices we expect - not headlining-obsessed political clampdowns that just drive migrants even further into the arms of criminal gangs and drive up prices.

There are people who want to come to Britain and work, there are businesses that want to employ them, and there are customers who want to pay affordable prices - Nigel Farage and the Sun are nowhere in that triangle so the government really shouldn't be kowtowing to their opinions.

[–] Docus 2 points 4 months ago

So until they sort out fast track decisions and deportation, what are they going to do with those illegals they round up? Put them in an empty prison cell - anyone see a flaw in that plan?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago