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Indian and Pakistani nationals among 200 arrested for visa breaches in UK

By: Sarwar Alam

Many Indians are among 200 people arrested in a UK-wide operation targeting illegal migrants living in squalid accommodation between January and June this year, the UK Home Office has said. The operation was part of Operation Magnify, an ongoing cross-government, intelligence-led campaign to stamp out illegal working in high-risk sectors across the UK. “Many of those arrested were Indian nationals, but there were also people from Pakistan, Afghanistan, China and Albania,” the Home Office said in a statement. During the operation in the first half of this year, officers targeted 253 so-called Houses of Multiple Occupancy (HMOs), arrested 200 people…

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