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Dozens of workers at burger chain Byron were arrested on 4 July in raids by immigration officials, which the Home Office said were carried out with Byron’s “full co-operation”. BBC reporter Emma Wilson spoke to a former Byron worker, Rafa, who described the moment an apparently ordinary meeting turned into an immigration raid which led to his arrest and deportation…

Its seems to me that there is no real complaint – just a bit of whining at being outsmarted. I am delighted that Byron will be giving its jobs to people who are entitled to be working here, and would use the chain, if there was one anywhere near me!

* Published: 06/08/2016 11:01:00 a.m.

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