SEF stops and questions foreigner workers in Armação de Pera

Paul Rees 22 November 2018

SEF Foreigners and Borders Service officers carried out an inspection to see if workers leaving agricultural sites were registered and legally present in the country.

The answer was ‘no’ for many after vehicles were stopped in the Armação de Pêra area of the Silves municipality.

The SEF reported that about 50 foreign workers, working for seven different service companies, were questioned and their documents checked. Two were not legally resident in Portugal and have to leave under their own steam, or be ejected.

The operation, which had the willing help of the GNR, took place at several exit points from farm and intensive growing areas and targeted workers’ vehicles.

An inspection team from Social Security was on hand to check for irregularities. Some of those stopped were working but declaring no income.

The SEF explained that this type of joint action, "aims to control foreigners being here who shouldn’t be, as well as checking that those legally here are being employed legally and that their employers are paying social security."

“This prevents situations of exploitation and trafficking in persons and of people being unprotected," concluded the SEF.

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0 #1 Dennis.P 2018-11-23 08:04

Seen in isolation this is fair enough, all countries need to control who is illegally within their borders. But see the larger picture, of the fundamental inequalities embedded in Hispanic societies and you begin to comprehend why the Hispanics should never have been allowed into the European Union as the fundamental freedoms and equalities of opportunity have never been possible here. The evidence was clear but ignored as the Hispanics never left their overseas territories with any chance of evolving as they ere not capable of doing so themselves.The over whelming corruption is fuelled by the need to have an upper strata who have special privileges with a larger group of 'wannabe's' that support them. So that all laws can be warped around the wishes of the VIP's. Hence the migrant caravans trekking up south and central America today and the hundreds of thousands who have sought a better life in northern Europe. If Spain ever gets control of Gibraltar how long before they have embedded their inequalities into Gibraltar and we are witnessing a trek to Calais of Gibraltarians wanting their old equalities of opportunity back?

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