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April 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Andy Dolan
18:55 EST, 1 April 2012
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18:55 EST, 1 April 2012
Hundreds of passengers walked into the UK without having their passports checked after immigration systems failed at a major airport.
Witnesses told how police and border officials stood back and watched as up to 200 travellers – angered at being delayed for three hours – decided to walk straight through immigration control.
The delays were caused by a computer power failure which prevented all new arrivals from having their passports electronically scanned.
Unchecked: Hundreds of passengers entered the UK at Birmingham airport following a computer glitch
It is understood border officials used passenger lists from flights affected by the delays to retrospectively check the identities of those who strolled straight through border controls.
This would have been too late to stop a terrorist or criminal on a watchlist from entering the country.
The incident on Thursday afternoon at Birmingham Airport followed a similar problem with the IT system at the airport the previous evening.
On that occasion hundreds more passengers suffered hours of delays in an incident which led to senior Border Force officer David Dodds being suspended pending an investigation.
An airport worker told the Daily Mail around 500 passengers were allowed to enter the country without their passports being scanned in an effort to relieve mounting congestion in the arrivals area.
Free pass: Around 500 passengers entered the country without the necessary checks taking place
Instead, passengers were allowed to proceed after giving their names and passport numbers so future checks could be carried out.
The chaos at Birmingham is the latest scandal to engulf the wider UK Border Agency, following last year’s controversy surrounding Brodie Clark, the borders chief forced to resign after suspending passport checks to tackle long queues.
One man caught up in Thursday’s delays said passengers became increasingly irate at the lack of information being provided by officials.
John Shotton, 76, who was returning from a holiday in Alicante, said: ‘The lack of information was terrible.
‘They were almost ignoring us and that’s what led people to start walking through the barriers.’
The airport source added: ‘People were able to walk in without immigration staff being able to identify who they were until it was too late.
‘It’s all well and good checking the names against passenger manifests, but by the time that was done it was too late to do anything about anybody considered a potential threat.’
Mr Dodds refused to comment last night. But the source said he was suspended after ‘taking a decision to relax border controls to relieve severe congestion’.
He added: ‘He’s considered one of the good guys, he just found himself in a very difficult position.’
A Border Force spokesman said: ‘Key checks were done on all passengers but this did cause some delays.’
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The BCA cannot do it’s job faced with job cuts, poor staffing levels and An IT infrastructure which is cheap and not up to the job. It is border control on the cheap which is what successive governments have wanted. Yet again, we are proving to talk a good job, but fail miserably at doing a good job because of financial constraints…..wouldn’t the billions we give to countries that either don’t want our money or fritter it on posh houses in Paris be better spent on protecting OUR borders?
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When this government said they were going to make big changes to border control, I don’t think most of us realised that they meant they just wouldn’t worry about who came in.
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Part of the problem is the contempt that airport officials seem to have for the travelling Public “cattle” – certainly this lack of relayed information as to the cause of the delay is all too typical, and why I can no longer face travelling via airports.
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We should take a leaf out of the Americans book. They don’t mess about when it comes to national security!
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I was watching a program the other night about British cops, they stopped a bloke in a car in London that had been stolen in France, it’s come to something when they have more details of a stolen car than the border agencies have of criminals coming into the country!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Come all ye faithful, come one and all, anybody can walk in here, doesn’t matter if they are wanted for crimes in other countries, doesn’t matter if this puts the people of this country in danger, who cares, nobody cares anymore, its out of control and it will not get better now, it will only get worse.
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