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A new directive has been agreed targeting employees who employ illegal aliens.
So far so good. Dickensian practices are abhorrent, and this legislation (2009/52/EC) in that sense is highly welcome. Quite why it needs to be done at all, of course, remains an open question, since national governments should already be outlawing them.
Our eye however falls on paragraphs 26 and 27. This sets up a complaint mechanism that employees who are illegal immigrants can use – directly or via intermediaries such as trades unions.
While pursuing these complaints, which presumably also includes such items as getting back pay off an employer, the state is expected to take a hands-off approach. Specifically, those providing legal aid to illegal immigrants cannot be pursued themselves in relation to their providing support for illegal residence, and the state is apparently expected to grant residence permits equal in length to those already being given for instance in cases of child or sexual trafficking.
Expect angry letters to tabloids in a matter of months when these loopholes start to get seriously abused.
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Lee Rotherham
Lee is a Research Fellow at the TPA. Co-author of the hit Bumper Books of Government Waste, he is an extensively published EU expert and front bench adviser.
