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He believes there are two ways to fix the crisis: firstly to employ more immigration staff, and secondly to consider a policy of 'risk-based checks'.

In effect, this would mean not carrying out checks on 'low-risk' travellers like British children returning from a school trip, for example.

He told the Mirror: : "I think we are wasting staff on unnecessary activity and low-risk activity – such low-level checks should be at the discretion of frontline officers."
Wonder who they would consider high risk?