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Unfortunately you all assume that immigrants to his country come for a free handout... totally wrong.

In fact any foreign national wanting to live and work here (legally) has to abide by a strict list of required professions issued by the Home Office (where there is a skills gap in the indigenous population) - additionally they have to prove that they have a job doing one these tasks and their employer has to keep the Home Office notified of any change to employment status.

If they can't get work doing any of those jobs, or don't have the skills to do them then they aren't allowed to work, full stop. They also aren't given any benefits whatsoever and if they don't find suitable employment within a given time period they are expelled.

The fact that there are problems with illegal immigrants at the levels there are perhaps has more to do with the ridiculously strict rules enforced on legals who just come here to try to better themselves.

Surely if they were allowed to apply for any available job vacancy, thus earn and pay their fair share to the taxation system we wouldn't have so much of a problem. At least that way they could afford to live and the notorious gangmasters wouldn't be able to prey on them and their legal status.

No matter how many rules we impose, or how stringently we apply them, there will always be a steady flow of illegals, and the harder we crack down on them, the more desperate they'll become - all of which can only lead to boom times for the organised criminal gangs involved in people trafficking.

The same negative reaction is often seen during police wars on class A drugs such as heroin. The police crack down harder, the street price goes up to offset the additional cost to smuggle it into the country and thus the level of crime associated with users goes up as they have to steal more to pay for the increase. Ultimately the traffickers and dealers don't suffer - they get their margin no matter what - it's the users and via transferrance the rest of us who feel the real effects.

This may be a different subject to people trafficking, but the machinery of the smuggling operation is very similar.

I'm just pointing out that it's not so cut and dry... oh, and ID cards wouldn't stop any of this either, because they already exist for immigrants... they're called visas and if an immigrant doesn't have them on their person when stopped by police, they can be detained until their identity confirmed. This fact still doesn't stop illegals.

It's got nothing at all to do with Human Rights lawyers.