Your cousin's illegal status

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Re: Your cousin’s illegal status

@hareem01

Just to clarify, we weren’t planning of reporting him, we knew he was in Scotland somewhere but didn’t know his employer’s details. Last week, there was a raid and they caught everyone without any legal status, he was lucky that he wasn’t there so escaped it but now he’s terrified and is going back to Pakistan in few days. (he’s not our cousin, he’s a relative)

I thought this was a hypothetical question. If he is back in Pakistan I would tell him to get and get here by legal means, work visa etc. You do not mention what your relative is qualified in but the chances are whatever it was in they were not being paid market rate working illegally .
When I lived in Bradford I knew a few unscrupulous restaurant owners who were paying illegal chefs in a Bangladeshi place £3.50 an hour instead of the going rate of £10-£14 an hour. When caught and fined they pleaded poverty despite their premises being full of drunken goras spending many ££££’s and living in £500000 houses.