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02/02/2009
Illegal immigrants 'caught working at Olympic site' |
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It has been reported that 200 Romanian workers have been asked to leave the 2012 Olympic Park site in the past two months.
A senior source has alleged to the Independent that numerous construction workers have been sacked in the past couple of months during a clampdown on illegal foreign labour.
Following the revelation, the Conservatives are calling for more stringent checks with the number of jobs at Europe's largest construction site set to double this year.
"People who work on the Olympics ought to be rigorously checked but more than a hundred illegal immigrants have slipped through the net," the shadow immigration minister Damian Green told the newspaper.
Mr Green says that people should also be worried by the "security implications" that this situation poses.
Figures obtained by the Conservatives and relayed to the news provider show that 136 illegal immigrants were caught working at Olympic Park between April and December 2008.
The accession of Romania to the European Union took place on January 1st 2007.  |
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