Free movement rules allow Eastern European gangs to run with ‘impunity’. Human traffickers operate huge benefit frauds in the UK, report warns. Vile trade also includes sale of girls for prostitution and sham marriages.
Crime gangs from Eastern Europe are operating here with ‘impunity’ due to EU free movement rules, a disturbing report warns today.
Human traffickers run huge benefit frauds in the UK, including one that was used to fund a housing development in Slovakia.
The vile trade also includes the sale of young girls for prostitution and sham marriages. In some cases, ‘customers’ from outside the EU are requesting women with EU passports so they can make them pregnant. The migrants – desperate for a foothold in Britain – then claim they have a human right to a family life in the UK to raise the child.
The Centre for Social Justice report, written by a former senior aide to Home Secretary Theresa May, is based on interviews with senior police and officials in Britain and overseas. It offers a deeply disturbing insight into how, since the EU expanded to include former Eastern Bloc members in 2004, a huge market has opened up in what it calls the ‘modern slave trade’.
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