Police meet on immigrants

Dover - Crime fighters from across Europe will meet in The Hague today to combat the £20 billion a year trade in illegal immigrants…

Dover - Crime fighters from across Europe will meet in The Hague today to combat the £20 billion a year trade in illegal immigrants in an emergency move that follows the deaths of 58 Chinese en route to Dover.

"Drugs used to be our priority but because of the escalation of human smuggling we are now going to concentrate our efforts on tackling that problem," said a spokeswoman for Britain's National Crime Squad.

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