Minister announces clamp-down on illegal workers

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Migration Minister Mike Tapp says the government’s clamp-down on illegal workers and sanctioning of employers who are “scamming the system” is “vital for the British public”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00This is vital for the British public. We said to them before the election that we're going to clamp

00:05down on illegal workers and that we're going to make sure that British workers come first and

00:10they have the opportunities. So what we've done here is we've increased that intelligence sharing

00:14across government departments and enforcement agencies to ensure that employers that are

00:20scanning the system and bringing people in illegally or what will be illegally are clamped

00:27down on. So we're sanctioning them and we're making sure they don't have access to that

00:31foreign workforce. A lot of people think about small boats as the issue for illegal migration.

00:36That's big. We're working hard on that. But it's also overstayers from work visas that need to come

00:43down. So I mean that's come down already by 48 percent and when it comes to employers the

00:47sanctions have increased by 100 percent in just 12 months.

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