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IMC reporter asks Oakington protestor about tabloid allegations

Dan Anchorman | 20.08.2000 23:01

IMC reporter questions a representative from CAGE protest group outside Oakington detention centre about stories which have appeared in several UK tabloid newspapers alleging that if immigration controls were removed the country would be "flooded" with "bogus" asylum-seekers

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CAGE representative listens to a question posed by an IMC reporter about tabloid newspaper coverage of "bogus" asylum-seekers. In particular the IMC reporter enquired whether it is true - as claimed by several national UK newspapers including The Sun, the Daily Express, the Daily Mail and the Daily Star - that removing "immigration" controls would allow the UK to be "flooded" with economic migrants.

Dan Anchorman