In my country illegal immigration is nothing new but also has been something of a great controversy because our government has turned a blind eye to it for quite some time.
I wonder what if anything the British government will do about this?
Panel to investigate immigration from India
LONDON: A British parliamentary committee will conduct an inquiry into illegal immigration into the UK from India, its chairman Keith Vaz, a leading NRI MP, said.
Vaz, a former minister for Europe, said the home affairs select committee would probe how a sizeable number of Indians, mostly from Punjab, were still coming to the UK via Turkey. He was speaking after the screening of Shores Far Away , a film on illegal immigration from Punjab into the UK. Vaz said British immigration minister Liam Byrne would visit India next month leading a high-level delegation when the issue of illegal migrants might figure in his talks.
Last year 2,500 Indians illegally came to the UK via Austria. "We have got very big problem. It is impossible to convince the people not to take the illegal route as a vast majority of them in the past had managed to get regularized. On an average 100 people come to me and of them 15 people complain of being duped by unscrupulous agents," said Jassi Khangura, MLA from Punjab, who was present on the occasion.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Panel_to_investigate_immigration_from_India/articleshow/2554415.cms
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