What life is REALLY like for illegal migrants: transcript

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What life is REALLY like for illegal migrants

[0:05] On screen:

AUSTIN

Immigration Enforcement Officer

[0:05] Austin: When I’ve spoke to people who have got off a dinghy coming over from Calais, and they tell me that they’re promised work here, promised living accommodation, that it’s gonna be nice. And then when you speak to people six months, twelve months down the line who we know have entered through the small boats channel, they do tell a very different story… and they actually themselves often will realize and admit that it wasn’t what they thought it was gonna be and what they were promised it was gonna be. And also, they’ve lost considerable amount of money that had been paid to these criminal gangs to get them to the UK.

[0:35] On screen:

KENDAL

Immigration Enforcement Officer

[0:35] Kendal: I think they are sold something different by the people smugglers. I think they are sold a job. I think they are sold a future. I think they sold a better life, but the reality of that is very different.

So the reality that we find is people working for forty pounds for a twelve hour day. They’ll have money taken out of that for their accommodation, for their food. So they’re probably coming out with ten pounds a day. They’re living in properties where there are fifteen to twenty people on mattresses. It’s just, yeah, it’s not nice.”

[1:06] On screen:

SMEENA

Border Force Officer

[1:06] Smeena: Females that have been trafficked into the United Kingdom for purposes of working in the sex trade, and some of them don’t even realize that’s what they’ve come for.

[1:16] On screen:

ANCIL

Immigration Enforcement Officer

[1:16] Ancil: People’s expectations when they get here is what they’ve seen on social media. The guys driving around in nice BMWs and popping champagne, and when they get here, they realise that’s not the case.

They usually get exploited, working on construction sites, car washes, people living in awful conditions, 15/ 20 people living in a 3 bedroom flat, having to still pay these smugglers… these are things I’ve seen and witnessed personally, I would really discourage people from looking at what they see on social media and thinking that that’s what it’s gonna be like, it is not what it all appears to be on social media.”

[1:54] On screen:

KENDAL

Immigration Enforcement Officer

[1:54] Kendal: I think that if people were able see twelve months into the future of what it would be once they made that journey across, I’m almost certain that people would choose not to.”

[2:03] End frame with UK Government logo: Trying to enter the UK illegally could cost you everything. Get the facts on illegal migration.