Raids to Target Car Washes, Nail Bars as Home Office Diverts Manpower From Rwanda Scheme

Published on July 21, 2024

Car washes and beauty salons will be targeted in immigration raids while 1,000 civil servants working on the Rwanda deportation scheme have been redeployed, the home secretary has said. Yvette Cooper said staff have been moved into a new Returns and Enforcement programme, which is designed to “increase returns of those with no right to be here and to make sure rules are respected and enforced, starting with an increase in illegal working raids.” In an article published in The Sun on Sunday, the home secretary said immigration enforcement has been directed to ramp up raids over the summer to 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.”...

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