{"id":274917,"date":"2025-07-19T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274917\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:22:10","slug":"arrests-as-west-midlands-raids-target-illegal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274917\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests as West Midlands raids target illegal workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Foster, who leads on immigration in the West Midlands, said illegal working was undercutting legitimate businesses and allowing vulnerable people to be exploited. <\/p>\n

“Those who choose to break the law by working illegally or employing illegal workers should expect to be caught and face the consequences,” he said. <\/p>\n

The enforcement activity comes after ministers promised to get tough on illegal migration to “protect UK borders”. <\/p>\n

Plans have included a focus on food delivery companies such as Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat to prevent illegal working. <\/p>\n

In June, the companies agreed to strengthen security checks<\/a> following reports some asylum seekers were working illegally as couriers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Foster, who leads on immigration in the West Midlands, said illegal working was undercutting legitimate businesses and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-274917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114880351221113013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}