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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Emiliano Mellino, Shanti Das and Vicky Gayle

Revealed: thousands of ‘innocent and abandoned’ migrant care workers told to leave UK

Zainab Contractor and her brother Ismail
Zainab, 22, and her brother Ismail, 25, photographed at Wesley Hall community centre in Leicester, were given 60 days to find a new sponsor company or face deportation. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Observer

Thousands of migrant care workers have been threatened with deportation, despite doing nothing wrong, after the Home Office took enforcement action against their employers.

In one case, a brother and sister from India who paid a recruitment agency £18,000 to secure care jobs in the UK, only to find they had been scammed, were told they must find another company to sponsor them in 60 days or leave the country.

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