Illegal immigrants given security jobs
Updated on 11 November 2007
The Home Office has admitted illegal immigrants have been accidentally given jobs as security staff across the UK.
Up to 5,000 people vetted by the Security Industry Authority working at ports, airports and as bouncers could have entered the country illegally.
Apparently the SIA did not check whether applicants were entitled to work in the UK before granting licences.
The Home Office said the SIA had taken immediate action as soon as it heard that some of its licence-holding workers had been employed illegally.
Today's news follows last year's fiasco, when it emerged that the Home Office itself had illegal immigrants working as cleaners.
