The BBC team met Indian employers who said they had no problem obtaining papers for the illegal workers, some of whom were willing to shell out huge sums of money for fake passports. There were Indian landlords renting out space to the 'faujis'. And, there was no shortage of work, though the workers are grossly underpaid.
The undercover team found there was no shortage of job offers, including at a Southall chip shop where a 'fauji' told of being employed for 12-hour days, six days a week at pound 1.50 - about pound 2 an hour which is very less labour specified by the Government.
The BBC expose comes at a time when the British government is strictly enforcing laws against illegal migration, particularly from Asia. In February, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced the introduction of local immigration teams across the UK by 2012 to prevent businesses employing illegal workers.
Businesses will also be named and shamed on the UK Border Agency website, and those who continue to break the rules will face huge fines, upto pound10,000. Since then, enforcement officers have raised hundreds of Asian restaurants, detecting hundreds of illegal workers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and south-east Asian countries.
This exercise comes in the wake of the introduction stricter immigration rules and protests by various British groups about the negative impact of illegal immigration on the local population.
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