Go. Are your loved ones being cared for by a foreign con artist. Next. Good evening. At a minute after nine, im Polly Middlehurst. Well, our top story middlehurst. Well, our top story today is the government has suffered a string of defeats to its flagship immigration policy. The rwanda bill in the house of lords tonight peers have been voting variously in favour of monitoring mechanisms which would ensure safeguards in the bill would be fully implemented , bill would be fully implemented, and making sure the bill is fully compliant with international and domestic law. Nearly 50 amendments were put forward , with more being voted forward, with more being voted on wednesday. Well, the Prime Minister, rishi sunak, previously warned the lords against frustrating the will of the people by hampering the passage of safety of rwanda passage of his safety of rwanda bill. Meanwhile, a record 385 migrants crossed the English Channel today. Thats the largest number on a single day this year. 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There is a deadly Cottage Industry of people paying Cottage Industry of people paying thousands of pounds to crooks to lie their way into britain , britains care homes britain, britains care homes and the actual homes of the elderly and infirm. Here is undercover footage obtained by the mail showing a baptist minister asking for £9,000 in cash to guarantee that a woman with no qualifications can become a home carer in the north east. The price already . Uh, yeah. The price already . Uh, yeah. The price already . Uh, yeah. Just wanted to go away. And just wanted to go away. And you said 9000 . Yes if you are ready to do this. If you are ready to do this. And what kind of words . And what kind of words . Dermot oleary acas. What do i Dermot Oleary acas. What do i need to provide it to start the process , to give me one . Process, to give me one . Okay. Before you go through okay. Before you go through normal procedures. Okay. Okay. Okay. Uh, do i have to pay everything upfront . And i everything upfront . And i obviously dont have anything to worry about with with the home office. Office. The company. Office. The company. I suspect this will be happening everywhere. Here are the sickening facts. We had the sickening facts. We had 164,000 care home vacancies in 2021. Apparently, the government then relaxed the entry rules to make it easier for immigrants to work in the care sector. Britain granted. 337,240 work visas. In granted. 337,240 work visas. In 2023, 26 higher than in 2022. This includes 140 6500 health and social care visas. That is apparently a 91 increase on the previous year. They also brought their dependents with them. 73 of family visas were reportedly for people working in the health and social care sector. Thats around 204,000 people. How many of these are dodgy Companies Need to sponsor care workers to be granted a visa. Some of these companies are bogus with copy and paste websites, fake looking reviews and po boxes as addresses. Reviews and po boxes as addresses. Some companies have never filed accounts and are only a few months old. At least 268 companies, those that have never been inspected by the Care Quality Commission , have also quality commission, have also been granted licenses. Others been granted licenses. Others appear to have been granted licenses by the home office, despite not being registered with the watchdog at all, the home Office Issued 275 visas to a care home that didnt even exist. This a care home that didnt even exist. This was a care home that didnt even exist. This was revealed a care home that didnt even exist. This was revealed in a report written by david neil, who was appointed as the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration. What happened . Well, he was sacked, happened . Well, he was sacked, wasnt he possibly because he didnt keep his mouth shut. We didnt keep his mouth shut. We already scandal of already have a total scandal of patients dying in some cases because foreign care home staff are unable to speak english properly , cant explain their properly, cant explain their symptoms to 999 call handlers. What kind of life have the elderly and most Vulnerable People in society got . If they people in society got . If they cant even understand their own carers . And now it turns out that loads of those carers wont even be qualified , and they are even be qualified, and they are literally just random foreign people who have paid thousands of pounds to a to criminal lie their way into britain. And theyve probably brought their families with well. But families with them as well. But this is the governments fault and nobody elses. Instead of training more british care workers and paying them more money, they decided to just flood market with cheap flood the market with cheap foreign and way , foreign labour. And by the way, theyre to do it with theyre about to do it with teachers. Overseas teachers as well. Overseas applications for teacher training have doubled this year in unprecedented increase in an unprecedented increase after ministers began a recruitment drive in countries like and india and like nigeria and india and offered £10,000 payments for foreign teachers to come to britain. But back to the care britain. But back to the care sector. It makes britain. But back to the care sector. It makes me britain. But back to the care sector. It makes me sick that sector. It makes me sick that this is how we treat our greatest generation , our greatest generation, our elderly, our most vulnerable , elderly, our most vulnerable, all people who have paid their tax all their lives worked hard , tax all their lives worked hard, done the right thing and bear in mind that only about 1 of abuse claims in care homes actually result in a conviction. So theyve got that against them as well. Nothing sums up our broken immigration system more than somebody with no qualifications whatsoever being given. The key to an elderly dementia sufferers own home. Lets get the thoughts now of my panel. I am joined this evening by daily express columnist Carole Malone. Ive columnist Carole Malone. Ive got trade unionist Andy Mcdonald and course the ex brexit and of course the ex brexit party mep belinda de lucy. Carole is our immigration policy putting the most vulnerable, at risk . Risk . Oh, completely. What you just said, you know, it gets me in this that, you know, this country that, you know, were be were supposed to be a Compassionate Society and yet we treat the most vulnerable and the people our the frailest people in our society so very badly. Its what you just said there. You know, when into a care home, when you go into a care home, its bad enough that youre away from your family and your friends and the of friends and all the rest of it. Then youre then youre youre looked by migrant care looked after by migrant care workers, whom have come workers, many of whom have come here illegally sense that here illegally in the sense that theyve for visas. Theyve paid for their visas. And we saw that baptist minister, i cannot believe that baptist minister saying to someone, youve got to pay me nine anyway, we should nine grand. Anyway, we should name shouldnt did name her, shouldnt we . Did we name her, shouldnt we . Did we name him . Lets call the. Hes called reverend um, name him . Lets call the. Hes ca ied reverend um, name him . Lets call the. Hes ca ied pronounce um, name him . Lets call the. Hes ca ied pronounce it um, name him . Lets call the. Hes ca ied pronounce it. Um, name him . Lets call the. Hes ca ied pronounce it. Are um, name him . Lets call the. Hes ca ied pronounce it. Are you or i cant pronounce it. Are you whaley are whaley . Yes. Whaley or are you whaley . Yes. Um. The most vulnerable in um. And the most vulnerable in our society. And you just said it your intro there. They. It in your intro there. They. You , theyre understood it in your intro there. They. Yotthe , theyre understood it in your intro there. They. Yotthe people eyre understood it in your intro there. They. Yotthe people coming understood it in your intro there. They. Yotthe people coming from,stood it in your intro there. They. Yotthe people coming from, you d by the people coming from, you know, to be a carer. I think you have to a very special kind have to be a very special kind of have of person. You have to have compassion. Have compassion. You have to have time. You have to have understanding. Will time. You have to have undelikelyiing. Will time. You have to have undelikely qualifications will time. You have to have undelikely qualifications as will very likely qualifications as well, of which is the well, of course, which is the key without key point that goes without saying. But , key point that goes without saying. But, you key point that goes without saying. But , you know, even saying. But but, you know, even if didnt have qualification if you didnt have qualification , if you were all of those things that would of things that would kind of be okay its not. It means okay ish. But its not. It means that people are and, you that our people are and, you know, no coincidence that know, its no coincidence that the instances of abuse in care homes has gone up hugely in the past 2 or 3 years, where families now have to put cameras in because their stories about their, loved their, you know, their loved ones are telling them theyre being shoved whatever. Okay, andy, for me, the fault here is directly with the home office instead of training and paying office instead of training and paying british workers more to do these jobs, theyve accepted the trope that british individuals cant be bothered to work in a care home, and so theyve just outsourced it to other countries, and theyre not bothered to actually check if these people are qualified. Yeah. Well, absolutely. I dont yeah. Wits absolutely. I dont yeah. Wits just lutely. I dont yeah. Wits just thely. I dont yeah. Wits just the home nt yeah. Wits just the home office. Think its just the home office. Its also the government, its also the wider government, the for education the department for education would the would be responsible for the training. You you training. Uh, but, you know, you look at the home office, weve had home secretaries in had five home secretaries in five clearly not five years. This is clearly not a government takes it a government that takes it seriously. And, you know, looking wider health and looking at the wider health and social can see social care sector, we can see that a net benefit that migrants have a net benefit in the nhs, example, weve in the nhs, for example, weve got fantastic migrant got some fantastic migrant qualified and nurses qualified doctors and nurses that are the backbone of the nhs. So when do it properly it. So when we do it properly it works quite well. But its just ridiculous that this, this bloke has been allowed to get away with seemingly. With this seemingly. Yeah, mean, this , yeah, belinda, i mean, this, to be honest you, makes me to be honest with you, makes me feel got most feel sick. Weve got our most vulnerable our greatest vulnerable and our greatest generation. And this isnt just about this is about about care homes. This is about domicile care. This about domicile care. This is about someone letting themselves in to your mum or dads house or your grandma or granddads house. Okay. To care for them on a daily basis and potentially not only not speaking a word of english, but not actually being a carer. A carer. Um, the home office, the government, the treasury, theyve given up britain , theyve given up on britain, theyve given up on britain, theyve on british theyve given up on british workers, theyve our workers, theyve given up on our workforce. Um, i dont know why workforce. Um, i dont know why theyre called home office, workforce. Um, i dont know why theyre citled home office, workforce. Um, i dont know why theyre cit seems home office, workforce. Um, i dont know why theyre cit seems tome office, workforce. Um, i dont know why theyre cit seems to be; office, workforce. Um, i dont know why theyre cit seems to be more e, workforce. Um, i dont know why theyre cit seems to be more of because it seems to be more of an International Office and how to use and abuse this country more than anything for its own people. People. Well, i find it immoral to constantly strip poorer countries anyway of their workforce rather than train our own, but they seem to be happy to theyve the to do that. Theyve put the pubuc to do that. Theyve put the public patients at public at risk. Patients at risk, elderly risk. They do risk, elderly at risk. They do not because they want not care because all they want is quick fix to their failed is a quick fix to their failed policies. Its an outrage. It is really. Now, carol, ill just move it over to you on this for the moment, which is that, you if are old that, you know, if you are old and youve maybe got some other kind right . Kind of issue there, right . It is at times to is difficult enough at times to understand, oh, god. Yes. Okay. Yes. And they get called all of these things. Oh, gosh. You know, the old person must be so racist they couldnt racist because they couldnt understand this person understand what this person was saying, that saying, despite the fact that weve failing to weve seen people failing to alert properly to someone, alert 999 properly to someone, symptoms that person died because didnt because that individual didnt have a good enough grasp at the engush have a good enough grasp at the english language. The bare minimum they could do minimum that they could do is do as the courtesy. Government as the courtesy. This government of that the people of making sure that the people in actually had qualification. Whats happening . Qualification. Office its happening . Qualification. Office itsyompening . Qualification. Office itsyou pointed the home office is you pointed out in your intro there that at least 268 companies were least 268 companies that were granted were not even granted visas were not even checked out by the quality care commission. What thats commission. Thats what thats what for , for gods what they exist for, for gods sake. The home office gave sake. And the home office gave 1234 visas to a company that only had four staff. If thats not a bogus company, i dont know what is. And so they dont know what is. And so they dont care. But you know, this story is not new. This is what annoys me story in me. The guardian ran a story in july last year about the migrants coming over and getting dodgy visas. Not the government has known about it was presented with report before christmas. With a report before christmas. Its done nothing. They dont care. Patrick. Patrick. They really dont care. And you know, theyre well you know, theyre saying well deal they deal with it now, are they are they going to arrest that baptist minister . Are they going to people in these companies . They certainly wont deport they certainly wont Deport Anyone the companies well, no, but the companies that that theyre that have admitted that theyre lying home office to get lying to the home office to get a visa, some of companies a visa, some of those Companies Get dont even get the visas that dont even provide just provide home care. They just sell the visas. Thats a criminal offence. And the home office doing it knowing office is doing it knowing exactly theyre doing. Yeah. I mean, rageous obviously this particular baptist minister is here defend himself is not to here defend himself and have to be. We and maybe doesnt have to be. We just yeah, know, and maybe doesnt have to be. We just he yeah, know, and maybe doesnt have to be. We just he deniesaah, know, and maybe doesnt h