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Part of Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:30 pm on 16 October 2007.

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Photo of Sally Keeble Sally Keeble Labour, Northampton North 5:30, 16 October 2007

Legislation has to apply to the whole country, not just the borders, so if you have a requirement on people to produce a passport or, almost by definition, ID at the borders, the same rule would have to apply in-country, so the people who had jumped off the back of lorries or whatever else would be required to do it in the middle of the country, miles away from the border. How would you manage that kind of power? I understand completely what the issue is: it is trying to find a way to deal with it that does not end up with you having to arrest people and take them to police stations.