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''On Thursday, the campaigning group Southall Black Sisters staged a protest during a UKBA operation in west London, telling officials that they were "attacking minority communities" as they carried out immigration searches at a local restaurant.

A Home Office spokesman defended the tactics: "We make no apology for enforcing our immigration laws and our officers carry out hundreds of operations like this every year around London. Where we find people who are in the UK illegally, we will seek to remove them.

"Immigration enforcement officers conducted an operation at Walthamstow Central underground station and hub today, based on intelligence, where they questioned individuals to check if they had the right to be in the UK. They arrested 12 people who were in the country illegally. Two further people were arrested in follow-up house searches."

I have to side with the police here, it may appear to be racial profiling, however if the intelligence is that there are immigrants living and working within certain areas does it not appear logical that would be the focus of any operation?....