Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Revealed: the Home Office's secret policy of targeting young Brazilians / Independent. 21 Aug 2005

http://www.mggpillai.com/sections.php3?op=viewarticle&artid=11212Andy McSmith
"Immigration officials have been carrying out a secret policy of barring young Brazilians from entering Britain, after a tip-off that gangs of people traffickers were smuggling them in to work in the black economy.
The revelation will add another twist to the UK's relations with Brazil, already thrown into crisis by the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes. The policy of targeting Brazilians has been in force since 2003, and might have prevented the killing of Mr de Menezes if it had been enforced sooner, because he exactly fits the type of young Brazilian that immigration officers have been systematically turning away."