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Article: Dawn farm swoop on illegal workers; Home Affairs Correspondent Richard Warburton joined police and Home Office officials as they carried out a raid to catch illegal workers at a farm on the Worcestershire/Warwickshire border.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2003
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A convoy of more than ten police vehicles was silhouetted against the blood red sun as it slowly spread across a bitterly cold, autumnal sky.
Teams of police officers and Home Office immigration officials mentally blocked out the dawn chill as they prepared themselves for a raid that had been meticulously prepared over the previous weeks. Meanwhile, workers at a nearby farm headed out into the fields while their colleagues began another long shift in packing sheds deep in the Warwickshire ...