Yet another 80 illegals have been detained for working at the London Olympic site — despite promises from the Government that the work would boost jobs for British workers.

Many of the latest arrests are of illegal migrants using stolen passports, according to media reports. Others were “asylum seekers” who are officially banned from working as they receive taxpayer-funded cash handouts and benefits.

Yet more were visitors who had entered Britain as tourists. As such they would have been unable to produce any sort of valid documentation giving them the right to work in Britain.  Either the Olympic site authorities do not check a thing or there is some underhand work afoot.

The largest number of illegals were from India, whose nationals accounted for 32 of the total. There were 12 Nigerians, seven Ukrainians, four Brazilians, four Kosovans, three Moldovans, and two each from Sierra Leone, Albania and Zimbabwe. The remainder were described as ‘others’.

Officials found workers using the genuine passports of others which were either stolen or borrowed. Some were caught with fake UK visas or had substituted pages in their passports.

When added to statistics of arrests in previous years, the latest set of detentions raises to over 200 the total number of illegals uncovered working at the site since its launch.

In 2006 the Serious Organised Crime Agency warned that up to 50,000 illegal immigrants could be smuggled into Britain through eastern Europe to work on the 2012 Olympic site.

Soca told the Olympic Delivery Authority it needed to be prepared for an epidemic of illegals being brought in by gangsters.

Officers said the main routes into the UK would be through eastern Europe, which criminal overlords consider the easiest way into the EU.