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‘Chaotic borders scheme failing to track suspected terrorists’

Published on 9 October 2013 at 09:15

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The government’s “e-borders” scheme, designed to identify people considered a threat — suspected terrorists, war criminals or people previously deported — before they arrive in the UK, has been criticised by immigration watchdogs, writes The Guardian.

The £500m (€592m) project has “yet to deliver significant benefits to controlling immigration and has had only a limited impact on tracking terrorists,” according to the daily’s conclusions of a report by the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration John Vine.

Only two airlines have so far joined the scheme while a system to monitor all passenger travel is failing to log around a third of journeys.

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