Chinese puzzles

Fri 21 Apr 2006
The Chinese community in the Uk worries immigration laws are helping human traffickers.

Two tragic events in recent years have focused attention on the risks faced by economic migrants from China - the drowning of 23 cockle-pickers a year ago, and the death of 58 would-be immigrants who suffocated in a shipping container five years earlier.

But members of Britain's long-term Chinese community, who have been running restaurants and takeaways here for decades, are warning that immigration rules are keeping the people-smugglers in business.

Poppy Sebag-Montefiore reports.

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