Migrant THREATENS Express reporter outside London asylum seeker hotel

An Express investigation has revealed that asylum seekers residing in a central London migrant hotel are blatantly violating Home Office regulations by working illegally as couriers.

The flagrant breach of UK immigration laws saw at least ten individuals spotted leaving the asylum hotel with bags from services like Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber Eats.

When Express reporters attempted to ask the migrants questions, some reacted aggressively, issuing threats of violence. They tried to intimidate us by riding Lime bikes at high speed towards our reporters, warning they’d “smash our heads in.”

According to UK immigration law, asylum seekers are not allowed to work for at least a year after their arrival.

Lee Anderson of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party reacted to the report saying: “If this is the kind of behaviour British citizens and taxpayers are expected to tolerate in their own communities, then this Labour government has failed them massively. Sadiq Khan has allowed this to happen in our most cherished capital city.”

Zak Garner-Purkis: Investigations Editor
Producer: James Walker
Phil Harris: Videographer
Steve Bainbridge: Videographer

A Home Office Spokesperson said:

“Where reports of illegal working or anti-social behaviour are made, immigration enforcement teams in the Home Office investigate.

“We are taking action to clamp down on illegal working in all its forms, which is why we are introducing new laws to extend right to work checks for those in the gig economy, including for food delivery drivers.”

An Uber spokesperson said:

“All couriers who use the Uber Eats app must undergo checks to ensure they have a legal right to work in the UK. Working with the Home Office and the rest of industry, Uber Eats has launched new detection tools to crack down on anyone attempting to work illegally on our platform. As a result, we are removing fraudulent accounts and we are constantly reviewing and improving our processes.”

A spokesperson for Deliveroo comments:

“We have a dedicated team in place who ensure Deliveroo does not work with riders who don’t have the right to work in the UK.

“All riders, including substitutes, must complete right to work checks before onboarding with Deliveroo, which we are robust in monitoring with daily identity verification and most recently, additional checks when a rider logs in using a new device. We prevent riders who are unable to demonstrate a valid right to work in the UK from accessing the platform.

“We take our responsibilities extremely seriously and continue to strengthen our controls against misuse of our platform, with further measures in development.”

Statement attributable to a Just Eat spokesperson:

“Just Eat is committed to being a responsible partner and supporting the local communities we operate in. To uphold this commitment, we set clear standards and requirements for those who deliver on our behalf.

“We are continuously strengthening our approach to ensure anyone who delivers through Just Eat’s platform has the right-to-work in the UK. Last year, Just Eat introduced a new mechanism requiring couriers to inform us that they are using substitutes and for these substitutes to complete right-to-work checks.

“We have now rolled out the next phase of substitute checks with enhanced biometric verification. Couriers are randomly prompted to complete a facial recognition test, ensuring the individual using the account’s facial data matches the right-to-work documentation held on our system. Any couriers who fail these checks are removed from the Just Eat network.

“We welcomed the Government announcement earlier this year to extend right-to-work checks to all industries to tackle illegal immigration. We continue to work with the Home Office on this matter.

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your asylum seek in the hotel could you tell me why you’re working yeah no sorry are is there no reason why you’re working as a as a courier why are you covering your face is there a reason why you ignoring me i’m just asking him why he’s working just Uber deliverers we’re down at a central London migrant hotel where last night I watched 10 asylum seekers leave the premises get on courier bikes and go to do work which legally they are not allowed to do so we’re going to go and try and speak to some of them and ask them what’s going on so people were in and out of this place like nobody’s business last night um and fully expecting it to be the same because we’ve seen already people leaving on the bus at exactly the same time your asylum seeks in the hotel could you tell me why you’re working could you tell me why you’re working are you allowed to work are the home office letting you work just gone straight off no no no i don’t like Excuse me sorry yeah yeah no sorry are you Is there a reason why you’re working as a as a courier are you working you’re working as a courier you’re not working as a courier you’re working as a courier yes we just seen you set up the phone no you’re denying that you’re working as a courier why are you covering your face hi guys you all right suppose you speak to security hi hi how you doing you work for the hotel security you work at security hi yeah could we have a word we just want to find out about the people that are working here is there a reason why you ignored me why have you put the hoarding up any questions just directly towards the home office the home office so the home office is okay with people working to the home office any questions we got to go to the home office so that was I presume hotel security they didn’t answer and they said any questions go through the home office about all the bikes you can see in there if you have a look there is just Uber deliver all couriers sorry excuse me could you explain explain why you’re why you’re working as a courier sorry what i’m just asking him why he’s working but you’re threatening and me we just tried to speak to the guy and he threatened to smash our faces so interesting what the Home Office will have to say about that so since we approached there has been far fewer couriers that are shooting out obviously word has sort of spread around and everyone has scattered but behind that boarding there still are loads of the deliver courage bikes and just eat ones um yeah activity little more subdued but we saw it last night we’ve seen it again today there are definitely people in there working