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Illegal Nigerian immigrant guarded the Home Office for 19 months
By Agency reporter
An unnamed illegal Nigerian immigrant has been guarding the Home Office for 19 months, it emerged on Monday, the UK Daily Mail has reported.
Jacqui Smith admitted the Nigerian had been working on the door at the Marsham Street HQ since 2006.
His employer, a sub-contractor working for the Home Office, was duped into giving him the job by forged paperwork.
However, the man’s status was only discovered on Friday as the Security Industry Authority that initially cleared him to work went through a backlog of foreign nationals granted jobs in sensitive security posts.
The Nigerian is one of 11,000 suspected illegals granted clearance by the SIA - an agency of the Home Office - before proper checks were implemented in July this year. He has since been arrested and is now facing deportation.
Last summer, former home secretary John Reid was furious to discover five Nigerians - all illegal immigrants - working in his department as cleaners.
The number of cases over the past five years is at least 15.
But it is the first time an illegal immigrant has been discovered in such a sensitive post - acting as the first line of defence for the Home Secretary and the scores of counterterrorist and police officials who work inside the Whitehall department.
Shadow home secretary David Davis said, “Last week the Home Secretary could not go out of her way enough to lay the blame for the SIA shambles at the door of employers. If she is going to try and avoid responsibility in such a way she should at least check her own house is in order.
“Who will the Home Office now prosecute and fine? Itself? Coming after the revelation the Home Office was guilty of employing illegal immigrants as cleaners, it is clear that this Government is part of the problem, not the solution.”
The Home Office risked accusations of “burying bad news”, slipping out the details in a parliamentary answer last night.
It came at the same time as details of the amnesty for failed asylum seekers, and revelations of more foreign prisoners being released without first being considered for removal.
But officials said Miss Smith had wanted to inform Parliament at the earliest possible opportunity, and that was last night. She was told about the illegal immigrant guard on Friday, a day after informing Parliament up to 11,000 had been cleared by the SIA. The scale of the scandal was twice as bad as Home Office ministers first suggested.
In the separate development, borders boss Lin Homer said two foreign prisoners had been released without being considered for removal.
It is the first such blunder since the mistaken release of 1,000 overseas inmates led to the sacking of Charles Clarke as home secretary in May last year.
The two migrants, who were in prison for non-violent crimes, were being hunted by police last night.
Miss Smith said security arrangements-were being tightened.
She added, “The Home Office is now working with the sub-contractor to recheck individually the right to work of all their security staff supplied to the Home Office.”
Immigration detainees yesterday caused “devastating” damage to a removals centre - the third riot at the site in just nine months.
Riot squads took more than eight hours to regain control of Campsfield House near Oxford, where more than 200 illegal immigrants and foreign prisoners were locked up awaiting deportation.
The Home Office was unable to confirm the number of injuries but said no one escaped from the unit which has had to be shut down.
Britain’s growth badly dented if flow of migrants is stopped
Britain’s growth would be badly dented if the flow of migrants was stopped, according to a group of influential economic forecasters.
About 1.5million workers from overseas have arrived over the past decade and are taking most new jobs at cut-price rates, the Ernst & Young Item Club has found.
It said the country would have suffered slower growth, higher inflation and higher interest rates but for the new arrivals.
However, it did note that more than 100,000 young Britons may have been pushed into unemployment by immigrants. The report said, “There is some evidence that the growth of immigrant employment seen in the last few years may have come at the expense of the domestic workforce.
“Given the age and skill profile of many immigrants, it is possible ‘native’ youngsters may have been losing out in the battle for entry-level jobs.”
Item said many immigrants had taken lowerskilled jobs at wages that were only 61 per cent of the UK average.
It also predicted gross domestic product would grow by three per cent a year over the next decade.
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