Sentence examples for illegal labourers from inspiring English sources

But, as a Home Office adviser told the Times this year, if our illegal labourers "disappeared overnight, London and the south-east would break down before breakfast".

Migrants began streaming across the border last week after the Thai army spokeswoman, Sirichan Ngathong, called illegal labourers a threat to Thailand and said anyone found without papers would be arrested and deported.

By thundering about the legal immigration of eastern European workers, the tabloids threatened to delay changes that would permit some tens or hundreds of thousands of illegal labourers to become official.

Of that there is no doubt among commentators, politicians and the police: Chinese "snakeheads" running the smuggling gangs that bring illegal Chinese immigrants into Britain, and British "gangmasters" who run the groups of casual (and sometimes illegal) labourers that keep the fringes of British farming afloat.

There are dozens of illegal labour exchanges around London, where labourers come to tout for work.

They are also subject to political upheavals: in June last year, 220,000 labourers fled Thailand amid fears of a crackdown on illegal labour by the military junta.

Cambodia has blamed Thailand's military junta for a mass exodus of migrant workers that has seen 220,000 labourers flee the country and allegedly claimed the lives of several people amid fears of a crackdown on illegal labour.

According to the 2014 trafficking in persons (TiP) report published by the US state department last week, a high proportion of Malaysia's estimated 2 million illegal migrant labourers fall prey to forced labour at the hands of their employers, recruitment companies or organised crime syndicates, who refuse payment, withhold their documents or force them into indentured servitude.

He also said police had started to round up hundreds of thousands of illegal Cambodian labourers and beggars.

We also have the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, created after 23 illegal migrant labourers drowned picking cockles in Morecambe Bay in 2004.

Dedicated to the cockle-pickers who perished in Morecambe Bay in 2004, Marina Lewycka's Two Caravans (Penguin) follows a group of illegal casual labourers and their dog.