[Music] Every year over a 100 million people go through passport control to get into Britain. Most are welcome and legal. Many are not. For the first time on television, we go behind the scenes of the UK Border Agency, the men and women on the front line of immigration. Tonight, sorting out excess baggage. We've got six uh males. Three are claiming to be from Afghanistan and three are from Iraq. Getting tough on illegal workers. It's going to extraordinary lengths not to allow us into that room. My plate immigration and no way in for the quiet American and his special friend. Hello, I'm a monster and um I'm going back to the United States today and I am very upset about that. [Music] Heathrow is one of the busiest airports in the world. At terminal 3, there are 50,000 passengers arriving every day. Next, please. How long will you all be staying for? There you go. Thank you. Thank you. Most have a legitimate reason to come into the country. Thank you, madame. Okay. Thanks very much. It's down to the immigration officers at the desks to spot those who don't. Officer Neil Newbury started working at Heithro after doing a math degree. Today he stopped a student returning to Britain after a trip home to India. But the border agency suspect Mr. Singh's college in London may be bogus. When you get these sort of letters confirming, yes, the student is studying here. Yes, he can go on holiday for this amount of time. It's usually printed out on um a better quality paper if it's a genuine letter. I mean, I could probably print something out myself given a little bit of time on my own computer. So, it's it's not looking great for me at the moment if I be totally honest. Officer Newbury wants to find out what the passenger is doing in the UK. He starts by checking Mr. Singh's luggage for clues. You work here. Where do you work? Tesco. At Tesco's. What do you study, sir? Computer science. Okay. I found a lot of information about his studies, couple of um quite large textbooks. So, that's a lot of things in his favor. At the moment, I'm sort of changing my mind. I'm thinking he may be genuine now. He's certainly got the work with him to confirm that he has been studying here and he's intending to complete his qualifications. But it's time to dig deeper. Officer Newbury must make sure Mr. Singh is sticking to the rules. As a foreign student, he's only allowed to work a maximum of 20 hours a week. You say you also work in the UK. Oh yeah. As what what where do you work and what do you work as? Nights. What does a night shift involve? What hours? It's basically one night shift is seven. So 7 7 and 1 half hour. So in total it's 15 hours. Okay. [ __ ] follow me please. Before giving Mr. Singh the all clear to enter the UK officer new must be sure he's telling the truth. He gives Tesco a call. Yes. He's he's returned back to the UK from a holiday abroad. Um, and we just want to confirm with yourselves his hours of work and how long he's actually worked for you. 36 and a half hours. Okay. Even if he is actually attending his college on a rare occasion, the fact is Tesco's have confirmed he's doing 36 hours a week work for them. And as a student, he can only work 20 hours a week. There's no way around that. So, um, yeah, he's uh he's in a bit of trouble there. Mr. thing. Come over here, please, sir. Try a few more questions. Okay, like to follow me, please. You've already told me you're aware that you can only work 20 hours as a student. In fact, Tesco have told me that you've been working 36 and a half hours a week. It's only possible because that's a night shift. So, it doesn't sound like you're studying to me to be honest. Do you now know what will happen to you? You've broken the conditions of your study visa. So your visa will be cancelled today. Whatever you want me to do, I can there's there's nothing that you can do now. Sir, there's actually no university in the in whole India. There's you you should have thought about that before you started working full-time in this country. He's obviously very desperate to stay here. He's saying he wants to complete this course. Obviously extremely desperate to do that, but um I'm afraid it's for me it's going to fall on deaf ears cuz um he had his opportunity a little while ago to come clean to me when I asked him the first time. He's had his opportunity again to come clean with me and he didn't. He lied to me twice and I cannot sympathize to someone like that because he lied to me. Mr. Singh must wait before finding out if he can enter Britain. It's the chief immigration officer who will confirm this final decision. I think on balance fact that he has worked in breach significantly enough to go down the change of purpose route. No, unfortunately you can't work here solely to support your studies. Genuine students are meant to fund their education from their sponsorship or from other sources and they can't just work in the United Kingdom to fund their education. Okay. I've spoken to the um the chief immigration officer with regards to what you've told me um and what Tesco's have told us and um we decided to refuse to enter United Kingdom today and cancel your visa. Okay. There's no chance. Afraid not. No problem. No. You've worked in breach of your um uh visa conditions. There's there's no way back from that, I'm afraid. Working full-time weekly can generate a lot of money which can then be converted into a lot of money in their country. Um so there's a lot of money at stake. If we had the time to actually sit down and really really question um and thoroughly examine every single student that comes through our borders, I think we'd find an awful lot of them that aren't actually studying here or aren't actually meeting their conditions of their visa. Um unfortunately with the amount of people we have coming through just this terminal alone, there's absolutely no way we can catch every single person. Mr. Singh spends the night in detention before boarding the first available flight back to [Music] India. Britain's border force faces its biggest challenge in France. Every day almost 5,000 vehicles cross the channel from Calala. [Music] Trucks have become the transport of choice for illegal immigrants desperate to find a better life in Britain. Known as clandestines, in 2007, nearly 12,000 of them were stopped by immigration officers here at [Music] Calala. It's midnight and on the front line tonight is officer Emma Hogban. She's using a probe which reveals human breathing. 30 Tonight it's really busy, so we've got a lot of traffic coming through and a lot of sailings. Um, each birth tonight has got about four sailings each. So, I think each ferry holds about 120 lries. We've got a lot of freight traffic coming through tonight. All we're doing now is we're probing all the softsided vehicles with the CO2 units to see if we get a reading. They measure the amount of carbon dioxide that's in the vehicle. So, the lower the reading, the less carbon dioxide there is. And obviously the higher the reading, the more there is, which would indicate to us that there's a possibility of people being inside the vehicle. If we get a reading, then we'll have to open them. Officer Hogburn is not the only one involved. Other search teams are also at work. And they might have just found something. You all right in there? We've got two colleagues in there at the minute. There's about six people they think they've got, but they're right at the front of the vehicle. Oh, clandestines are usually friendly. Hello. Hello. And rarely aggressive or threatening. Speak English. Yes. Why not? Where are you from? Where are you from? I'm from Afghani. Where? Afghan. Iraq. Iraq. Yeah. Yeah. Are you from Iraq? Yeah. Him? Yeah. How did you get in the vehicle? Did you come in to the side? Um, we've got six uh males. Three are claiming to be from Afghanistan and three are from Iraq. Um, and what we'll do is we'll take photos of them in situ and then we'll get them out one by one where they'll be detained so we can serve papers on them. [Music] When we open the curtains, we were quite close to the ship. So their im immediate reaction was how close they were to getting onto the ship, which for them must be quite heartbreaking because they're so close to getting to the UK, but they've been stopped. So they were quite um disappointed to say the least. For every clandestine found, there's the maximum of a 2,000 penalty for both the driver and the company which owns the truck. The fairies need to run on time, so the searching is relentless. Hello. Can you sit down with your passport, please? The clandestines are cunning and the hiding place is imaginative. Certain loads can be really difficult to search and um in particular tires um because they can bury themselves underneath them and they're quite difficult to sort of climb across and um wheelie bins are also very difficult cuz they can get inside so you have to crawl across and lift up each lid individually. So, it's quite difficult to find people and we often go home with really strange bruises as well from where we've been climbing in certain things. Officer Emma Matthews may be about to get some more bruises. The CO2 probe has registered a high reading in another lorry. Can Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Can definitely smell. Just here. Can pass the camera, please. Stay there. How many? Two here. Just 5 months I was here in Calal. Five months in Calala. And you speak English? Where are you from? Afghanistan. Afghanistan. Stop moving, please. Well, there's two so far, but um good possibility there's some more down the front. There's one more. There is another person in here. Yeah. Yeah. There's another one here. There is. Yeah, from Afghanistan as well. Yeah. Any more people? Just three. One chance. Yeah, they always ask for one chance. They want chance to get to England. As soon as they get to England, then they can try and claim asylum, but can't give them that chance. Yeah. Okay. Well, we staying in in Cali for 5 months. Oh, I'm sure quite frankly this is probably the third or fourth time in as you know, many weeks or so that this has probably happened. It's all part of the routine that these guys go through in order to get through to the UK. The trickle has turned into a flood. More Afghan clandestines have been found in another truck. So, three people, three. It sounds like we've got another one further in who's actually crouched within a load of plastic. Basically, they're just rumaging. See if I can find mate. There you go. No, stop asking. Why? Because come down, please. This way. I think it's a bit too much of a coincidence that within 10 minutes till we get two lries with three Afghanis in each. They'll be handed over to G4S to mine them while we finish the paperwork and then they'll be taken back over to the French authorities and removed out the control zone. So far tonight, the team have stopped 12 people from crossing the channel illegally. But not every truck is stopped. No one knows how many clandestines get through [Music] undetected. At Heathrow Terminal 3, there is a queue of people trying to get into Britain. Officer Tim Weatherall's been working these passport desks for three years and does things by the book. He stopped a man from Chicago who sets it here to spend time with his girlfriend. An American who is a basketball player. He's coming to the UK for 2 months. Um he has a Portuguese girlfriend here who he says he's coming to see. And when I asked him what exactly he's going to be doing in the UK, he just said working out. The concern at the moment is that I mean the sponsor says she has enough funds to support him and you know we have nothing to disbelieve that claim. The worry I have is that he may possibly have been working illegally in Spain which obviously then we would have the concern that he would do the same here. The American and his Portuguese girlfriend have been living in Spain which is now waiting for him in arrivals downstairs. Officer Weather won't let them see each other until he's satisfied the man isn't planning to live and work in the UK. And what is it that you do for work? Play basketball. Okay. So, what is it you're actually coming over to the UK for today? Visit my girlfriend. But what plans do you have with your girlfriend with regards to sort of going forward? Obviously, she's just moved to the UK long term. Do you sort of plan on moving here or planning on moving to Portugal or have you has it not really been discussed? Actually, I'm planning on getting married. Okay. Are you engaged currently or? Yes, I'm here because we're making our way to the embassy to take care of part of the marriage. Okay. How long have you been together? Man, y'all are asking personal questions, man. Well, I mean, that's related to whether or not you'd be allowed to marry in the UK. That's why I asked. Two and a half years. In order to get married in the UK, you require to have a visa before you come here. A marriage visa? Yeah. Um, the fact that obviously you've stated you're planning on getting married and and you don't have the the visa that you required prior to coming here may mean may result in you being refused leave to enter into the UK today. Okay? That's not a decision that's been made yet. That's that's nothing. But I'm just making you aware that's sort of the worst case scenario. Okay, you understand that? I don't think he's sort of been trying to deceive us at all. I don't think he's sort of tried to not tell the truth, but I I just think he seems sort of quite naive. He wasn't aware of the fact that he needed to have this entry clearance. Um, which he hasn't got. Um, unfortunately, he I'm happy that he sort of he's been telling me the truth during interview. Um, so yeah, as I say, I think it's sort of naivity rather than sort of any deception that's gone on here. The decision to allow or refuse the American entry will be made by officer Weatherall, but first he will consult the chief immigration officer. So the bottom line is he's coming here not as a visitor. He's coming to get married. Yes. Plans after that are still up in the air. Still up in the air. He's I mean he said that mainly that they're probably looking at going back to Spain. Why bother getting coming here getting a job and why bother getting married here if if in the end staying in UK isn't part of the plan? I'm not happy because this man has now told us he's coming to get married. He could have told us that when he first arrived. So at the moment I'm I am looking this man might not qualify for entry but obviously given that the sponsor is an EA national that's something we have to look at as well and um you know we'll make a decision when we've looked to all the facts. The American's fate is now back in Officer Weatherall's hands. We'll have to find out if it is true love. [Music] Illegal immigrants are living and working in all corners of Britain. Targeting the aisle of white today is a special enforcement team whose task it is to try and track them down and send them home. This border force is led by officers Simone Shepard and Jim Olir. They've been told two curry houses are employing illegal workers. They can never be too sure just how good their tip offs are. Uh you never know what you're going to get when you go into a premises. Uh to be perfectly honest. Um you go in looking for one and come out with a dozen. Enforcement teams in 2007 arrested more than 5,000 illegal immigrants. Employers can be fined up to £10,000 for each illegal worker they employ. Are you the boss, mate? No. Do you work here? Yeah. Yeah, you do work here. Okay. Were all the cookers off? Yeah. They're all off. Lovely. Did you take photo copies of any documents for your employees? No. No. We've got around about 11 people on the premises of which he says five or six are employees. He's got no documentation with regard eligibility to be in the UK or in fact to work in the UK. Um, we could be here for a couple of hours anyway. Officer Shepherd leads a second team to another restaurant where they suspect illegal workers have been working and living. Can we come in, please? Nice and gently. Hello there, immigration. Have you got any identification, please? If you've got it, sir, could you get it for us, please? Some ID. ID, sir. ID. ID. ID. Passport. Passport. I'm sorry to wake you up. Thank you very much. You got your passport? Well, can you just confirm your name for me, please, sir? Yes. Your your name, please? And how did you enter the UK, sir? He came on a visiting. So, has he a passport here? Does he have a passport? No passport. No, my this is somebody taking password. No, my passport. So, he used somebody else's passport. Which was then So, you enter the UK legally. Okay. Your family name. At the first restaurant, they found two workers with outofdate visas. You've told me that that last year you got a visa to visit the UK for 6 months, and that was last May. But therefore, I am satisfied you have entered the United Kingdom illegally. I'm arresting you on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant in the United Kingdom. and I am arresting you at this time on suspicion of overstaying your visa. You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defense if you do not mention when questioned something you'd later rely on in court. Do you have any possessions on you, sir? Can you empty your pockets and put them on the bed for me, please? But you're working downstairs as well, aren't you? Sometimes sometimes. How many hours you work away? I've got permission about 16 hour, but I'm not working last seven months. I didn't work any place. Oh, so you just live here? Yeah. Just so do you have a copy of your passport or anything? Everything go my house because I'm really sorry but I go and this is all your money, is it? Yes, sir. But you're not working. We've done our home office checks. One of the gentlemen is an overstayer which means he's no longer got any leave to be in the UK. So he is removable. Um so he's already been arrested and he'll be coming with us to the police station. The other gentleman has admitted to being an illegal entrant. So, he's been arrested as well and he'll come with us for that interview. So, we're going to sit them in a little room out the way a moment while we go and see if we can find some documents for them in their bedroom with the overayer and hopefully he find his passport shortly. He'll be removed back to Bangladesh. Well, I have his passport which means he will be going home. I got your passport was in your jeans, wasn't it? Yeah. I'll just put those in there. But this search for illegal workers has taken a more sinister turn. One the officers cannot ignore. What do we found here? Um we found some DVDs. Um there's one of these that may seem slightly concerning. I don't know the nature of the DVD. I don't know whether it's promoting or um it's against terrorism. But obviously the DVD itself looks to be um of some concern to us. So we'll need to have a a chat with the gentleman and perhaps refer it on to police or to special branch in order for them to uh take it further if they deem that necessary. Two illegal workers from each restaurant are arrested. One will be immediately deported back to Bangladesh while others will be temporarily released while their travel documents are sorted out. Both restaurants will be issued with a formal warning and face a fine if it happens again. [Music] At Heathro airport, the flights continue to pour in. A thousand planes land here every day. At terminal 3, the American who set it here to marry his Portuguese fiance is still waiting to hear if he'd be allowed in. Well, I mean, as a visitor, he does not qualify for entry into the UK cuz he's coming to get married here. What we need to do now is find out to make sure he doesn't qualify um for entry as an unmarried partner of someone settled in the UK. In order for him to qualify for entry, the parties have to have been living together in a relationship akin to a marriage or a civil partnership which has subsisted for 2 years or more. So, how long have the two of you been in a relationship before? How long have you sort of actually been a couple for? uh approximately 2 years and 3 months. And how sort of quickly after you got together did you did you end up living together? Did you kind of have it straight away or have you No, maybe a year later. A year or so later. Yeah. Now, where is my fiance? She's in the arrivals area downstairs. She's actually at the airport. I got a confession, man. These last months to two months, man, I've been going through a lot. Okay, man. My sister died. Yeah, your fiance. A couple of my aunties died a lot. I just need to get away from the States. Okay. Just cuz I I can understand that. And you know, I just need to get away, man. I and and and my getaway is is is my girlfriend. Okay. So, I won't even get to see my girlfriend. There there is a chance that you won't get to see her. No, I'm not going to lie to you that cuz cuz she can't come up into through security this way. Please not. Again, it's that's not sort of cast in stone and I haven't made any decisions yet and no one has. But, you know, I don't want to give you the hope that, you know, you're going to be able to spend time with her as there is a chance you might not be able to. Okay. It sounds like he has had a hard time in the states. The fiance stated that his sister was murdered back there which is obviously you know it's horrific for anyone and um we you know we do take into account any compelling and compassionate circumstances but given that he's also said that most of his family are still back in the states you know I don't think we're sort of if we were to sort of refuse him if that's the decision that's made I don't think that's unduly harsh cuz obviously you know he does have his family settled back there. The last time they saw each other was when he left to go back to the States from Portugal in February when his sister was murdered and they haven't seen each other since then. I think we should refuse him entry and I think we should refuse him entry as a visitor on the basis on the basis of the fact that he has few ties to his home country. Yeah, there have been some discrepancies between what he said about his relationship with sponsor initially. I mean some discrepancies about what he said he was coming to do as well because he didn't mention the wedding until until later on. What about any compassionate circumstances that apply here? He's obviously very upset and you know he's been sort of close to tears and in tears throughout the interview to be honest. Um he's main concern was whether or not he's going to get to see his girlfriend. Um I don't think that there are compassionate circumstances that justify granting him entry into the UK, but there may possibly just to allow her to see his girlfriend if if we're satisfied he's not going to abscond to possibly grant temporary admission. Temporary admission can be granted before a decision is made or or after a decision is made. It's where we normally retain the passport and the documents and it's where somebody is allowed outside on on license as such. Um they're not legally admitted to the United Kingdom and they report back at certain times and we would put a timely on the temporary mission. The compassion of the immigration officers means he will get one day to see his girlfriend then he must go back to Chicago. Officer Weatherall will hang on to his passport. if you get the marriage vis there's absolutely nothing stopping you coming back to get married here okay you're okay to go now they're both on their way obviously I think you know they're sort of unhappy with the decision but happy to finally sort of be back together I think we came to the sort of the right conclusion obviously they didn't qualify for entry as a visitor he didn't qualify for entry so he was refused um but we've let them sort of have a day together so they can sort of see each other when he qualified when he applies for his marriage visa assuming all's well then he'll be sort of you know fine to come back here and they can get married decide where they want to live. So that's the end of that for now. In Calala, there's another frontline post for the border force. Clandestines trying to cross the channel illegally can also stow away in trucks heading for the Euro tunnel. All right, sir. Can you step down with your passport for me, please? You all clear? But officer Mark Atwell has an extra tool in his armory to give him the edge. What this is, it's a a heartbeat sensor. It's connected to the machine which is uh just over in that cabinet there. What we do is we place this on a metaltometal contact service within the vehicle. The machine will then try and detect any vibrations that are caused within the vehicle either by people moving around or even by their heartbeat. It's quite a sensitive piece of kit. With up to 30 trucks an hour coming through the search bay, it's not long before hearts are racing. Three at least. Maybe another one. Oh, we got high readings on the heartbeat. And this this time it's actually come. It's come good. There's some people in the back. If you have a look at the readings, that's where you can sort of see that they're sort of true readings. They all look very similar. Nice family group. I found your mom, dad, and child. Do you want them out or not? No. Hey, stay there. Stay down there. Get down there now and stay there. You get down in there. Down in there. Yes. Stay in there. Officers won't let the clandestines out of the truck until they've moved it to a safe area. We've got a family uh looks like mother, father, and child. uh possible air train nationality um obviously concealed down at the front of the trailer. Uh they're wrapped in foil to try and obviously uh prevent the CO2 detectors getting set off but obviously using the heartbeat machine. Obviously we found them that way. We'll sort them out in there. I mean they'll know they've been found here and we'll just move them out there round to the left and into the deep search bay and that's where we unload them cuz uh if we don't get them out in the lanes. Sit down. Get down. Sit down. Sit down. Problem we have with this particular nationality is a communication problem. We found them. They're obviously quite keen to get out of the vehicle as quickly as they can. It's quite uncomfortable inside. But obviously we've got a duty of care towards their health and safety. So we got to make sure they're nice and safe while the vehicle's actually moving. Keep him coming. So, this is sort of four. Four so far. Got French papers. Four people so far. Uh, I believe there's a fifth in there, but um a bit agitated at the moment. So, it's a bit of a delicate situation. Back right hand corner, you reckon? One more. Okay, I'm coming. Where you from? Stay there. Stay there. Stay there. Stay down. Stay down. The man's anger at the presence of the camera is a concern to the officers. If ever there's a risk of danger, they withdraw and contact the French police. We've got to think about our own safety and about the safety of illegal immigrants. So, at that stage, we decided to withdraw out the vehicle. We'll close the vehicle up and we'll call the people really in this area who know how to deal with it which is the French police off on tear the path. Um they'll come in and they'll then now diffuse the situation hopefully. I'm trying. Come out. Close the door straight away. To avoid further provocation. The TV crew stop filming. Come. 15 minutes later. Unfolding events are captured on a camcorder. The clandestine climbs out of the truck. Officers can only look on as in France is not their policy to use their power of arrest. One of them has gotten very violent and he was kicking and screaming in the in the deep search bay in the lorry. Um so much so that he climbed up to the top of the roof, cut himself out and uh as he got up onto the roof, he sat on top. He was threatening to jump off. He was screaming. He was threatening our staff. And basically the other four have played up to him and so now they have they've walked out of the deep search. There's nothing we could do about it but they're walking so far away from us that they could just jump into another lorry and come through. Yeah, it's a really extreme situation. The Atrans are picked up by the French police and released outside the port area. Most clandestines rarely carry any form of identity to avoid being deported by the authorities. They're free to try again to make it across the channel. In the aisle of white, the enforcement team is on the move again. This time they've been tipped off that a hotel is employing illegal workers. We've got a warrant for the premises. Is it possible to speak to the manager? Hi, it's immigration. If you'd like to step that way, we're going to have a word with you. Do you speak English? Hi there. Thanks for you work here. You work here, don't you? Yes. Can you come downstairs and speak to us from immigration? We're speaking to everybody on the premises. The team find five workers. Two of them from Swaziland who have been in the country longer than they should have. Your name for me, please. Your visa run in November 07. 07. It's 2008. No. Yeah. Where is it? You're studying. No, we in I'm studying here. Where are you studying? In London usually in London. And where are we now? White. On the aisle of white. So, how are you studying in London? Pardon? You used to go there sometimes. Are you studying in London now? At the moment. No, you're not in London. No. Okay. We haven't got any record of either of your new applications to overstayers. They should have left the UK last year and the year before actually. So they overstayed their leave in the UK and we will be looking to remove them back to Switzerland. The hotel is run by a husband and wife team but the wife is away and has the key to the office safe where one worker claims her documents are locked away. And what's your name? Violet. Violet. You're living on the premises here. Okay. So you've got room upstairs, have you? over here. Yeah. So, where is your passport in your room? No. No. So, the manager's got it. Have you got any other form of identification? Yeah, we think it's in the office. In the rooms? In the office? In the office? All right. So, have you lived in Russia before? Yeah. Right. Have you ever had a Russian passport? No. You weren't born in Russia or anything? Huh? You weren't born in Russia? My mom. Your mom's Russian, but you're Lithuanian. Lithuanians um are part of the accession state, so are entitled under certain circumstances to work and reside in UK exercise treaty rights. Um Russians are not. Russians are still a nationality that require permission to be in the UK and permission to work. The officers need proof the woman is Lithuanian. She says her documents are in the safe, so they go to check her room. She doesn't seem to have a key to that either. So this is your room, is it? Yeah. So, where's the key? It's in the office. It was in this board with one small titty bear and the key stick. So, I don't know. It's on the big bunch of keys. And this board. It was in the office. Yeah. On the big bunch. On that big board. On the board. Wait, there is one big board like it's not there now. So, there's no I don't know. Maybe someone take it. Okay. Wonderful. Let's go back. She's telling us that all her documents are in the safe. We can't access the safe. Um there's the issue of the lost key which just seems a little too convenient when you tie it in with uh the whole nationality issue. Um so they're going to um get into a room. We can't find the key. We've given her lots of opportunities to give us the key. We can't find it. So they're going to make a forced entry into the room. See if there's anything in the room that might establish either way at the moment. That's the that's the problem is we can't establish one way or the other. Stay over my bridge. Immigration. There you go then. Coming in. This is This is mine. Okay, we'll take your whole wallet actually. Have you got anything else in here? Uh, what about that might prove who you are? Yeah, I will show this account letters. Okay. You haven't got a photo copy of your passport anywhere? Photo copies. Yeah, it's all photo copies we make for me and we take in the office. This is my sister, right? So, that's all in the office as well. You definitely got nothing else in here. You see, unfortunately, Vleta, if if we can't prove who you are, you might have to come to the police station with us. Go. There you go. We'll go back around the front. You can't prove to us who you are. Okay? So, we can't prove you're Lithuanian. So, I'm going to arrest you on suspicion of illegal entry and we're going to go to the police station. Okay? You don't need to get upset. Okay? But for what? We can't prove 100% that you're Lithuanian. Okay? So, we're going to arrest you now and take you to the police station and we're going to sort it out there. where we can sort it out much easier. So, I'm going to arrest you now on suspicion of illegal entry. So good to go there. She seems quite sincere, but there's too many cases where we come across, you know, they've been sincere and it's not the case. I mean, you need hard proof. You can't go on your feelings really, unfortunately. The woman is the fourth member of staff arrested. As the officers search her room more thoroughly, they find a Lithuanian passport after all. But it's not hers. We've made a search. We've located a uh Lithuanian passport has actually been reported stolen or lost in 2004. The team also finds her genuine passport, proving she's from Malddova, which is not in the European Union. Um that's the Moldova passport. Uh the middle passport's actually expired now. Uh and also the visa inside it has expired. Hence she was using the Lithuanian passport. Immigration officer Steve Hassler has been helping to man the border at Terminal 3 for 2 years. He stopped a passenger from America who's come to London to do some teaching, but he doesn't have a work permit. As usual, his bags will be searched before further questioning. Am I going to recognize anyone? Am I? No, I can recognize anyone. Okay. This is not what he expected to find. So, how many you got all together? I think I've got about uh maybe 12 or 13. So, these what for your the students and stuff is it? Yeah, they work a we do it on television gets popular and learn how to do it. So, it's uh it's all pulls, no strings. Okay, sir. Right, we'll pop them back in there now. We've seen we've uh we've seen them. It's not every day you have a bag search and you find uh 15 uh puppets in there. Uh so, clearly it's more than just a holiday. He's coming here to work. I mean, he's he's admitted much. You know, he's got his itinerary um in there that we can have a look at. Um he's also mentioned that he's actually got um a website about his tour to the UK. There you go. He's holding uh a UK tour. He's got five venues. Uh people are going to be charged £59 per person to come in and and to work with him in one of these workshops. So um clearly he's coming over here. He's making money. He doesn't have a work permit unfortunately. Just want to take a seat if I ask you just to sit in the far corner. So why have you come to the UK? um half vacation and half to teach my classes. Okay. How how much do they pay you? Um they're paying me between 200 and £350 a piece. Is that per workshop? Per workshop. Okay. The main premise of the work permit is that you are given a permit to come over and to work in the UK. That's the problem that we have at the moment. Okay. It's just a bit disappointing that not one of the colleges, while he's arranged to come over and teach, have said to him, "Well, you actually need some sort of visa." Considering they'll get international students there all the time who have to have visas to study, I would have liked to have thought one of them would at least realize that he needed a work permit to come and uh teach. He apparently, yeah, he's got four Emmy awards for work he's done on the Sesame Street and the Muppets as well. So, you know, it'll be a bit disappointing when I have to tell him he's refused, you know, but uh we'll see. Anyway, we've got to refer it to the CIO, obviously, get get his uh get his feedback on that, and we'll take it from there. Just uh me, please. Officer Hassler knows the chief immigration officer cannot let the puppeteer enter the UK without a work permit, but he may offer a compromise when it comes to the passenger's detention. I don't think he's a case for the holding room, is he? Really? Not at all. No, I mean for temporary admission. Yeah, definitely. That's what I was gonna I was going to recommend that we give him, you know, I don't know how long you wish to give him. One one or two days. Um the first uh I think we give him till late tomorrow. Well, there's a flight at 15:30. Temporary admission will allow the passenger to come into the country only until his flight home the next day. You took it quite calm actually. I mean, I thought there would be a little bit more uh emotion there. If we were to let him in, then what's to stop us letting everyone in? You know, we've got to be fair to everyone. Yeah, in this instance, you feel you you do feel genuinely sorry for him. Um it's going to impact on him greatly, but uh you know, we've just got to do it. [Music] In the aisle of white, the woman who claimed to be Lithuanian is starting to come clean about her background. She said, "My name is not by letter. it's actually and she came out with the details which we'd already ascertained from a [ __ ] passport which we sus we suspected was her and she just confirmed that where else were you born she's told us that she doesn't want to go back to Moldover and the reason she's come over is cuz um something's hurting her over there. She's obviously very very upset about the whole situation. So we'll treat her nicely. We'll have a chat with her in a minute and uh look to remove her back to mold over because what we'll [Music] do is she's a sweet lady actually. So you've just got to sort of detach yourself from it really. At the end of the day, she's still an offender. Um just like everybody else who we come across. So um we've got to treat her as such. Can't make any special allowances. Unfortunately, the woman will be sent back to Moldover. Get in. Watch your head. Two workers are removed to their homelands, S Swazilland and India. A fourth is given temporary release while the claim she is making about her human rights decided. Give me a call at any stage. The hotel is fined £10,000. At terminal 3, it's time to go back home for the quiet American teacher and his puppets. Hello, I'm a monster and um I'm going back to the United States today and I am very upset about that. Yes. Mhm. H. Ah, I was going to teach the teachers how to use me for ESL, which means English as a second language, and also for therapy and all sorts of things like that. But of course, I'm not going to be doing that. Oh, it's so sad. Oh, it's so sad. All the kids that won't be able to laugh. [Music] Ooh. Wow.