Around 300 potential terrorists, criminals and illegal immigrants try to enter Britain each day, with 99,500 alerts issued by the National Border Targeting Centre (NBTC) last year.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, a terror analyst, said the increased number of alerts was due to an ever greater threat from jihadists: “Given what has happened in the past year and the fragility of the European border system, the authorities would be acting irresponsibly if there were not more alerts.
“The border agencies are doing the best they can in a situation in which the threat level is severe and they do act on an intelligence-led basis. That means they sometimes get it wrong, but I would rather they get it wrong on a small percentage of cases than there was a bomb in Oxford Street.”
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