Heathrow
A Woman arrives at Heathrow from Cape Town telling IO Lisa Lee she’s here for a training course called ‘Steiner’. It’s a fabrication; she’s here to earn money to send back to her impoverished family in South Africa. She’s the only breadwinner it the family. She is refused entry.
Officer Kay Lomas is handed the case of a ‘student’ who is trying to re-enter the country from India. He claims to be studying in London but lives in Leicester. With both Kay and her boss Sarah Dyson finding his story difficult to believe, Kay calls his cousin who supposedly drives him to college three days a week. He doesn’t have any answers for pretty straightforward questions. Something isn’t right. But he does confirm that the ‘student’ works at his factory. Kay phones his college and finds out he hasn’t attended since November 2007, 6 months ago. Kay confronts him about these discrepancies and he finally admits he has been lying. He also says he paid the college £500 just to say he was attending. He is refused entry.
Yeovil Enforcement - Bingo Hall
The Bristol Enforcement Team have information that there are Brazilians masquerading as Portuguese working at a Bingo Hall in Yeovil. They find one woman who says she’s Portuguese, although her name and date of birth matches that of a Brazilian who entered the country. The team travel to her home to try and find her passport to prove her nationality. After much searching the woman admits she has is Brazilian. This is enough evidence to send her home, even though the passport is never found.
Another raid in Yeovil, this one at a residential address, results in some potential illegal immigrants fleeing from the back of the house, we see them disappear into the distance. Two men are found inside the house and both claim to be Portuguese. They search the house for passports or other ID. One of the team find a Portuguese ID card but it turns out to be forgery. The other man is found to have outstayed his 6 month Brazilian visit visa. Both men are detained and are later returned to Brazil.
Calais
There’s never enough time or people to search every lorry coming into Britain from the Continent. Immigration Officer John Cassidy explains the role of the ‘Spotters’ who picks out which lorries should be searched. On an average day they can find up to 40 clandestines. Today is unusual because they’ve been searching lorries all night, with their CO2 tubes and sense of smell, apparently clandestines who live rough have a very noticeable ‘aroma’. Eventually, as daylight breaks they make a discovery. Five Iraqis are found onboard a lorry. They are later released back outside the port to try again another day.