UK Home Office immigration enforcement agents raid Evanton’s China Town Chinese takeaway in Easter Ross and detain two illegal workers for deportation

Two Chinese nationals face deportation after a raid by immigration enforcement officers on a Chinese takeaway restaurant in Easter Ross.

Witnesses in Evanton reported seeing UK Government Home Office agents swoop on the village’s China Town takeaway at the Balconie Inn on Balconie Street on Thursday evening.

It is understood the two people were found to be working illegally in the UK and were arrested and detained pending removal from the country.

The takeaway had been open earlier in the evening, but had closed for business by around 6.30 pm last night, onlookers said.

A Home Office spokesman said: “Organised immigration crime is a multi-million pound industry, which stretches from the trafficking routes thousands of miles away through which people are brought to our country, to the high streets across Britain where many of those people end up working illegally.

“As part of our Plan for Change, this government is cracking down on that criminal industry at every level, including stepping up our visits to businesses, including takeaways and restaurants, where illegal working is taking place and increasing our enforcement action both against illegal workers and the people who employ them.”