British citizens would become their own
immigration enforcement officials, spying on one another, checking one another's papers, and reporting one another to the
authorities.
While Lord West's review has found no systematic failings in our procedures for checking potential suspects, it has highlighted the importance of enhancing existing cooperation to share more information between police and
immigration services and internationally across countries: - within the EU to enable
British law enforcement
authorities to access
immigration information on existing EU databases; - bilaterally with other member states to mutually exchange information; - and joining up criminal records databases throughout the EU so that our
authorities can quickly identify individuals charged with crimes, no matter where in Europe they are convicted.
«Perhaps in a misguided attempt to please their political masters, the
immigration authorities are crippling
British business with their witless, dogmatic implementation of the interim cap.