A UK fast food company arranged a phony meeting just to create an opportunity to arrest foreigners working without legal permission.

The company was obliged to cooperate, but was it required to tell lies for that cooperation's sake?

I have no objection to arresting and deporting foreigners who are working illegally. If it is true that "no British person would do" the same work, perhaps the company will have to offer a raise to induce British people to do it. This might reduce some of the fall in wages that the UK has experienced since 2007.

However, to stop these people from talking with their friends and collecting their belongings before they are deported is a gratuitous cruelty. At least let them call to ask friends to bring over their belongings.