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The illegal immigrants desperate to escape squalor of Britain
By Chris Rogers BBC News
Many houses in areas of London and the Home Counties have put up makeshift shelters in their gardens
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The BBC has spoken to illegal immigrants who find themselves living amongst rats and rubbish in makeshift garden sheds and garages. They want to be deported back to India, but many are trapped in a bureaucratic no man's land without any documents.
Jagdeesh pulls away a piece of cardboard revealing a tiny hole in a concrete wall. He invites me to climb through, declaring: "This is my home, come in."
As I crawl into the derelict garage in west London, the torchlight reveals half the roof is missing, a floor littered with rubbish, and rats scurrying away.
The 22-year-old illegal immigrant jumps on to a mattress in the corner. His makeshift bed is protected from the elements by plastic sheeting.
Jagdeesh's family paid £10,000 to traffickers who promised a better life and smuggled him from India to Britain with dozens of others in the back of a lorry.
Voluntary returns "I was told that life was good here. It's not just me, other boys came for work," he says. "You can see what state we're in, there's no work, no government help."
Jagdeesh has cut himself off from his family, saying he is ashamed of his failure to find work and would rather they thought he was dead than knew he was living in filth.
"They sold land and took out loans to get me out of India. What can I say to my family back home? The money we've invested is lost," he says.
Out of work, penniless and 4,000 miles from home, Jagdeesh has handed himself in for deportation.
Voluntary departures from the UK to all countries have risen steadily over the past six years, from 335 in 2005 to 15,537 in 2010, before falling to 12,879 in 2011, Home Office figures show.
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It is barely dawn as Jagdeesh and hundreds of other illegal immigrants from India descend on a car park outside Southall train station in west London.
They stand in silence, shivering in the bitter cold. This car park was once a busy pick-up point for cheap illegal workers before the work slowed down in the economic downturn.
It is mid-morning by the time a van swings into the car park. Suddenly dozens of men rush towards the driver's window offering their skills, shouting above each other.
"I make a good plumber," shouts one. "I work hard boss, 12 hours for £20," shouts another.
Several men scramble for a place in the back of the van, pushing others out of the way, then the van speeds off. For those left behind, there will be no more offers of work that day.
Surinder, 33, also from Southall, arrived in the UK more than 10 years ago. There was a time when he made £300 a week working six days as a heating engineer, but he is now living in the poverty he came here to escape.
He heads back to the home he shares with several other illegal immigrants - a tiny, poorly constructed building in his landlord's garden. Inside, there are three beds and a cooking area.
"We can barely make ends meet. It's been two months and we've only worked four days, what can we do?" he says.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17183171
The illegal immigrants desperate to escape squalor of Britain
By Chris Rogers BBC News
Continue reading the main story Related Stories
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The BBC has spoken to illegal immigrants who find themselves living amongst rats and rubbish in makeshift garden sheds and garages. They want to be deported back to India, but many are trapped in a bureaucratic no man's land without any documents.
Jagdeesh pulls away a piece of cardboard revealing a tiny hole in a concrete wall. He invites me to climb through, declaring: "This is my home, come in."
As I crawl into the derelict garage in west London, the torchlight reveals half the roof is missing, a floor littered with rubbish, and rats scurrying away.
The 22-year-old illegal immigrant jumps on to a mattress in the corner. His makeshift bed is protected from the elements by plastic sheeting.
Jagdeesh's family paid £10,000 to traffickers who promised a better life and smuggled him from India to Britain with dozens of others in the back of a lorry.
Voluntary returns "I was told that life was good here. It's not just me, other boys came for work," he says. "You can see what state we're in, there's no work, no government help."
Jagdeesh has cut himself off from his family, saying he is ashamed of his failure to find work and would rather they thought he was dead than knew he was living in filth.
"They sold land and took out loans to get me out of India. What can I say to my family back home? The money we've invested is lost," he says.
Out of work, penniless and 4,000 miles from home, Jagdeesh has handed himself in for deportation.
Voluntary departures from the UK to all countries have risen steadily over the past six years, from 335 in 2005 to 15,537 in 2010, before falling to 12,879 in 2011, Home Office figures show.
Continue reading the main story Voluntary returns from the UK
- 2005 - 335
- 2006 - 3,034
- 2007 - 4,805
- 2008 - 7,644
- 2009 - 11,783
- 2010 - 15,537
- 2011 - 12,879
It is barely dawn as Jagdeesh and hundreds of other illegal immigrants from India descend on a car park outside Southall train station in west London.
They stand in silence, shivering in the bitter cold. This car park was once a busy pick-up point for cheap illegal workers before the work slowed down in the economic downturn.
It is mid-morning by the time a van swings into the car park. Suddenly dozens of men rush towards the driver's window offering their skills, shouting above each other.
"I make a good plumber," shouts one. "I work hard boss, 12 hours for £20," shouts another.
Several men scramble for a place in the back of the van, pushing others out of the way, then the van speeds off. For those left behind, there will be no more offers of work that day.
Surinder, 33, also from Southall, arrived in the UK more than 10 years ago. There was a time when he made £300 a week working six days as a heating engineer, but he is now living in the poverty he came here to escape.
He heads back to the home he shares with several other illegal immigrants - a tiny, poorly constructed building in his landlord's garden. Inside, there are three beds and a cooking area.
"We can barely make ends meet. It's been two months and we've only worked four days, what can we do?" he says.
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