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Thu 07 Jul 2009Common Travel Area retained
THE BRITISH government has removed a clause from a controversial immigration Bill which would have required the showing of passports from those travelling between the Republic and Britain.
The Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill, designed to heighten protection from international terror and to cause immigrants to the UK to “earn” British citizenship, was published in January.
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