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Sense In Border Politics

11th June 2011

At the moment there is much anger about a UK Border Official who, according to the BBC, relaxed "identity checks on non-EU nationals" over the summer. This 'relaxation' then was claimed to have placed the UK at risk because names of visitors were not checked against 'watchlists'. This news is unsurprising in some respects, and quite shocking in others. The controversy centres on the call to temporarily suspend checking the e-passports of individuals from outside of the EU. This is a non-…