My hon. Friend makes the point perfectly. If immigration officers, border police or whatever they are, are not present, they are not doing any good. In addition, the professional smugglers, whether people smugglers, drug smugglers or any other kind of smugglers, know where immigration officers and customs officers are not likely to be. They therefore target those areas.
UK Borders Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Damian Green
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 5 February 2007.
It occurred during Debate on bills on UK Borders Bill.
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