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# Identifying the problem
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/identifying-the-problem/
- Published: 2008-07-17T11:07:57.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:41:11.000Z
- Author: Stuart Weir
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:41

**Stuart Weir (Cambridge,** [**Democratic Audit**](http://www.democraticaudit.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** There is a surreal ironist in the Home Office.

BBC News is trumpeting [an investigation](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7511390.stm?ref=opendemocracy.net) into rogue illegal immigrants who are apparently able to re-produce practically any official document anyone might need, from passports, driving licences down to gas and electricity bills. But what is the Home Office doing about this plague of illegality?

"That what ID cards are for" Did I hear right?