Almost 2,000 fraudulent identity documents used by illegal migrants to try to enter the UK are discovered by Border Force every year, figures show.
Between 2010 and 2020 it recorded 21,256 “fraudulent” ID documents, for which there is a maximum penalty of ten years in jail.
The Liverpool bomber, Emad Al Swealmeen, used a false Jordanian passport to enter the UK in 2014.
Almost half of all false ID documents detected at the border are from Europe, according to the figures, which were released under a freedom of information request by Migration Watch UK, which campaigns for lower immigration.
The UK stopped accepting EU identity cards as proof of identity in October last year, and the Home Office said that that would help to
