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Nail bars and car washes will be targeted by immigration officers as they step up enforcement action over the summer, the Home Secretary has announced.
Yvette Cooper said 1,000 civil servants had been redeployed from working on the now-abandoned Rwanda scheme to staffing a new “returns and enforcement programme”.
The new programme is intended to “increase returns of those with no right to be here and to make sure rules are respected and enforced” and will see raids on businesses suspected of employing illegal workers ramped up.
Writing in The Sun on Sunday, Ms Cooper added: “We have directed Immigration Enforcementto intensify their operations over the summer, with a focus …