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Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]

In the previous group of amendments, perhaps I should have mentioned that when children are trafficked for the purposes of benefit fraud, often they may be disguised as children travelling in the care of a relative. That is another instance where great vigilance is needed. Amendment 117B in this group is important. Members of the Committee, as well as the Government, will be aware of cases, usually in the London area, where young people have been imported, mainly from Vietnam, as forced and exploited labour for cannabis-growing houses or plastic domes. I hope, but do not know, that the police have this form of crime more or less under control. If they have not, the amendment could be helpful in dealing with it.

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Reference

708 c825 

Session

2008-09

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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