Jobs the Brits won't do?

Times:

The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith faced huge embarrassment last night after it emerged that an illegal immigrant had been caught working on the front desk at the Home Office.

The Nigerian man was picked up as immigration officers examined the status of more than 11,000 foreigners mistakenly cleared to work across Britain.

Aides said the Home Secretary was furious over the discovery of an illegal worker within her own department. The security guard had been in the department for about 18 months, checking the passes of visitors to the Home Office.

The man, supplied to the department by a sub-contractor, faces deportation after being arrested on Friday night.

The Border and Immigration Agency had been examining the records of 11,100 non-European Union nationals given permission to work by the Security Industry Authority (SIA).

It uncovered problems with a sub-contractor and the trail led it to the Home Office, its own department headquarters.

One security guard was detained and the immigration status of all others supplied by the sub-contractor to Ms Smith's department are being checked.

The Home Secretary added in a written statement to MPs last night: "The Permanent Secretary has taken immediate steps to tighten the procedures for checking the immigration status of those working in the Home Office, whether as a civil servant, employed by a contractor, or in any other capacity."

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I wonder if the same contractor supplied workers for Mitt's garden work. I am prepared to give Mitt a pass, before giving the Brit Home Secretary one though. It would be the equivalent of the Department of Homeland Security having an illegal as a security guard. Just this summer a similar row occurred when it was learned that one of the people responsible for Tony Blair's car was an illegal. Immigration status reviews appear to be a low priority in the UK.