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Published Date: 17 March 2009
ALMOST 1,800 lorry drivers were caught smuggling immigrants into the UK last year, the borders and immigration minister, Phil Woolas, admitted last night.
According to provisional figures, 1,766 drivers were served with penalties for people- smuggling. Mr Woolas said 1,571 of those caught were foreign lorry drivers, compared with 195 from the UK.

But the overall figure is likely to be higher because the minister said some penalties issued during the last six months of 2008 were still being processed. Mr Woolas was responding to a parliamentary question.





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sam the god,

17/03/2009 08:16:24
The truckers should check their lorry’s half way across on the ferry and if they find any immigrants they should throw them overboard and make them swim back to France. Also the ones that get caught in the UK should be immediately sent back to France as they have bye passed a safe country to get to the UK so thus they are not proper asylum seekers but economic migrants wanting to sponge off the UK taxpayers. But this government will bow down and let them in the sooner they are voted off the better.

 

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