UK steps up immigration crackdown, plans facial recognition for visa overstayers

In what is being called the UK's biggest crackdown on immigration, the country is preparing to deploy facial recognition cameras at transport hubs and public events to track visa overstayers and immigration offenders, the Guardian reported. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood had boosted the immigration enforcement workforce by 60%. Notably, Indians are among the largest non-EU group immigrating to UK.