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68 immigrants found in shipping containers in England

The drivers were arrested for facilitating illegal immigration.

By Ed Adamczyk | June 5, 2015 at 10:00 AM

Harwich International Port at Essex, England, where 68 immigrants were found in shipping containers. Photo courtesy of wikimedia.org/ Martin Pettitt.


ESSEX , England, June 5 (UPI) -- British border agents found 68 migrants locked in shipping containers aboard four trucks at the port of Essex.

A Home Office spokesmen said they were found late Thursday at Harwich International Port, northeast of London, during an inspection. The trucks and containers arrived from the Netherlands.

Within the containers were 35 Afghans, 22 Chinese, 10 Vietnamese and one Russian. Two were pregnant, a member of East of England Ambulance Service said, and seven were later hospitalized with chest and abdominal pain.

The four drivers, all Polish nationals, were "arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration," the Home Office spokesman said.

The migrants were found near the site of a 2014 incident in which 35 people were found in a shipping container, including an afghan man who was discovered dead.

Europe is dealing with an increase in the number of illegal immigrants, seeking asylum from poverty and violence, and largely from the Middle East and North Africa. The crisis has called immigration policies into question, with the European Union attempting to convince members a quota system would be the most preferable of choices. Britain and France are among those opposed to a quota; tight national budgets have led to support of right-wing political groups calling for an end to illegal immigration.

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Harwich port stowaways: Fifteen of 68 people found in lorries deported

People are led away by Border Force staff

Fifteen of the 68 suspected illegal immigrants found in lorries at Harwich, Essex, on Thursday have been deported.

The 35 Afghans, 22 Chinese people, 10 Vietnamese people and one Russian were found locked in four lorries at the town's port on Thursday.

Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said the 68 included two pregnant women and two unaccompanied children.

Four drivers from Poland were arrested and bailed until 2 July on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration.

Conservative MP for Harwich and North Essex, Bernard Jenkin, asked Mr Brokenshire in the Commons about the discovery of the migrants.

The migrants included 35 Afghan nationals, 22 Chinese, 10 Vietnamese and one Russian passenger

Mr Brokenshire said several of them were complaining of chest pains and nausea.

He said if any of the migrants claiming asylum were found to have made similar claims in other EU countries, they would be sent back to them.

"Some of the individuals have claimed asylum and UK Visas and Immigration are considering their claims." he said.

"Two of the asylum seekers are unaccompanied minors and have been placed into the care of Essex social services.

"We have already begun the work to seek the removal of the remaining migrants from the UK and 15 have already been successfully removed."

Mr Jenkin said the individuals found at the port were a "pitiful sight".
They were as much victims of human traffickers as they were "seeking to exploit the system themselves", he said.

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