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‘A continuing recreation of cat and mouse’: Contained in the crackdown on unlawful moped supply drivers

By Editorial Board Published July 10, 2025 5 Min Read
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‘A continuing recreation of cat and mouse’: Contained in the crackdown on unlawful moped supply drivers

The very first thing you discover when immigration officers cease a doable unlawful moped supply driver is the velocity during which the suspect rapidly faucets on their cell.

“We’re in their WhatsApp groups – they’ll be telling thousands now that we’re here… so our cover is blown,” the lead immigration officer tells me.

“It’s like a constant game of cat and mouse.”

Twelve Immigration Enforcement officers, a part of the Dwelling Workplace, are becoming a member of colleagues from Avon and Somerset Police in a crackdown on street offences and migrants working illegally.

The West of England and Wales has seen the best variety of arrests during the last 12 months for unlawful employees outdoors of London.

“It is a problem… we’re tackling it,” Murad Mohammed, from Immigration Enforcement, says. He covers all of the devolved nations.

“This is just one of the operations going on around the country, every day of the week, every month of the year.”

Murad Mohammed from Immigration Enforcement

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Murad Mohammed, from Immigration Enforcement, says his staff try to sort out the problem

Simply outdoors the Cabot Circus buying advanced, we cease a younger Albanian man who arrived within the UK on the again of a truck.

He is on an costly and fast-looking e-bike, with a new-looking Simply Eat supply bag.

He says he simply makes use of it for “groceries” – however the officer is not shopping for it. He is arrested, however then bailed immediately.

A man inspects the Just Eat food delivery bag of a suspected illegal immigrant working as a delivery driver

We do not know the specifics of his case, however one officer tells me this suspected offence will not rely towards his asylum declare.

Such is the size of the issue – the backlog, loopholes and the complexity of instances – that attempting to maintain on prime of it feels not possible.

That is one among many raids occurring throughout the UK as a part of what the federal government says is a “blitz” concentrating on unlawful working hotspots.

Angela Eagle, the border safety and asylum minister, joins the staff for an hour at one among Bristol’s retail parks, scattered with quick meals chains and, subsequently, supply bikes.

Angela Eagle, Minister for Border Security and Asylum

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Border safety and asylum minister, Angela Eagle, speaks to Sky Information

She says arrests for unlawful working are up during the last 12 months by 51% from the 12 months earlier than, to greater than 7,000.

“If we find you working, you can lose access to the hotel or the support you have [been] given under false pretences,” she stated.

“We are cracking down on that abuse, and we intend to keep doing so.”

A suspected illegal immigrant working as a delivery driver being arrested

There are studies that asylum seekers can hire reputable delivery-driver accounts inside hours of arriving within the nation – skipping employment legality checks.

However a brand new Border Safety Invoice, working its manner by Parliament, may see corporations fined £60,000 for every unlawful employee found, director disqualifications and potential jail sentences of as much as 5 years.

“I had them all in to see me last week and I told them in no uncertain terms that we take a very tough line on this kind of abuse and they’ve got to change their systems so they can drive it out and off their platforms,” the minister tells me.

The gig economic system – so prevalent in each metropolis – creates one other incentive for these eager to danger their lives coming to the UK illegally.

Greater than 20,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel to the UK in 2025 – a file quantity at this level of the 12 months.

A suspected illegal immigrant working as a delivery driver holds his helmet

For a few of those that arrive, a motorbike and a telephone present a method to repay money owed to gang masters.

There have been eight arrests right now in Bristol, one or two taken into custody, however it was 12 hours of onerous work by a dozen immigration officers and the assist of the police.

As two mopeds are pushed onto a low-loader, you’ll be able to’t assist however really feel, regardless of one of the best intentions, that in the meanwhile, this can be a dropping battle.

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