The Reasons We Chose to Go Undercover to Expose Crime in the Kurdish-origin Community

A pair of Kurdish-background men agreed to go undercover to expose a organization behind unlawful main street enterprises because the lawbreakers are causing harm the reputation of Kurds in the Britain, they state.

The two, who we are referring to as Ali and Saman, are Kurdish-origin reporters who have both resided legally in the UK for a long time.

The team found that a Kurdish-linked criminal operation was managing convenience stores, barbershops and vehicle cleaning services throughout the UK, and wanted to find out more about how it functioned and who was involved.

Prepared with secret recording devices, Ali and Saman presented themselves as Kurdish-origin asylum seekers with no permission to work, attempting to acquire and run a mini-mart from which to sell illegal tobacco products and vapes.

The investigators were successful to uncover how easy it is for a person in these conditions to start and operate a commercial operation on the commercial area in plain sight. The individuals involved, we found, pay Kurds who have UK citizenship to register the businesses in their names, helping to deceive the officials.

Saman and Ali also managed to discreetly film one of those at the centre of the network, who claimed that he could remove official penalties of up to £60,000 imposed on those using unauthorized laborers.

"I sought to participate in exposing these illegal activities [...] to say that they don't speak for our community," says Saman, a ex- asylum seeker himself. Saman entered the UK illegally, having escaped from the Kurdish region - a region that spans the borders of multiple Middle Eastern countries but which is not internationally recognised as a nation - because his well-being was at risk.

The journalists admit that tensions over unauthorized immigration are high in the United Kingdom and say they have both been worried that the probe could inflame hostilities.

But the other reporter states that the unauthorized labor "negatively affects the entire Kurdish-origin community" and he feels driven to "reveal it [the criminal network] out into the open".

Furthermore, the journalist mentions he was anxious the reporting could be used by the far-right.

He states this notably impressed him when he realized that radical right activist a prominent activist's national unity rally was occurring in London on one of the Saturdays and Sundays he was working covertly. Banners and banners could be spotted at the gathering, showing "we want our country back".

The reporters have both been tracking social media reaction to the exposé from inside the Kurdish-origin population and report it has generated intense anger for some. One social media message they spotted read: "How can we find and find [the undercover reporters] to harm them like dogs!"

One more demanded their relatives in the Kurdish region to be attacked.

They have also read accusations that they were agents for the British government, and traitors to other Kurds. "Both of us are not spies, and we have no aim of damaging the Kurdish-origin community," Saman states. "Our objective is to uncover those who have damaged its standing. We are honored of our Kurdish-origin identity and profoundly worried about the behavior of such people."

Most of those applying for asylum state they are escaping political discrimination, according to Ibrahim Avicil from the a charitable organization, a charity that helps asylum seekers and asylum seekers in the UK.

This was the case for our undercover journalist one investigator, who, when he first came to the UK, struggled for many years. He states he had to live on under twenty pounds a per week while his refugee application was processed.

Asylum seekers now are provided approximately £49 a per week - or nine pounds ninety-five if they are in accommodation which includes food, according to government regulations.

"Realistically stating, this is not adequate to sustain a respectable life," states the expert from the RWCA.

Because refugee applicants are largely prohibited from working, he thinks numerous are open to being exploited and are essentially "forced to work in the unofficial market for as little as three pounds per hour".

A spokesperson for the authorities stated: "We are unapologetic for refusing to grant asylum seekers the right to be employed - doing so would create an reason for people to travel to the UK without authorization."

Refugee applications can require multiple years to be decided with almost a 33% taking more than 12 months, according to official data from the end of March this year.

The reporter explains being employed without authorization in a car wash, hair salon or mini-mart would have been very easy to do, but he informed us he would not have participated in that.

However, he states that those he interviewed working in unauthorized mini-marts during his investigation seemed "disoriented", especially those whose refugee application has been denied and who were in the appeal stage.

"They expended all of their money to migrate to the UK, they had their refugee application rejected and now they've forfeited all they had."

The other reporter concurs that these people seemed in dire straits.

"If [they] declare you're prohibited to be employed - but simultaneously [you]