The restaurant and building trades are being targeted in more immigration raids to find illegal workers, Home Secretary James Cleverly said on Tuesday.It comes as the Home Office announced on Tuesday that it had met a target to clear a backlog of asylum claims, with more than 112,000 cases processed in 2023. Two thirds of applications (67 per cent) subject to an initial decision last year were granted.
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00:00 Well look, the whole point of, particularly if people are trying to come here illicitly,
00:05 is they don't always report in. But the point is if they fail to do so, ultimately we will find them.
00:11 But how can you remove them if you don't know where they are?
00:13 Because we go looking for them. So we go looking at places where we know illegal people
00:17 work illegally. So often, often in the clothing trade, sometimes in the restaurant trade,
00:29 in the building trade, we know where these people typically go and work,
00:32 often cash in hand, often undocumented. We go and find them and we remove them. That's
00:37 why we've had a two-thirds increase in the enforced removals. Because we go looking for
00:42 these people, we've increased the rate significantly and we've increased the
00:46 number of people that we're deporting. Can you understand that?