CREWE and Nantwich MP Gwyneth Dunwoody warned in Parliament earlier this summer that the new migrants were in danger of being exploited by unscrupulous employment agencies and isolated from the community.

She said in the speech: "In my constituency, we are beginning to see that hidden group of people contributing to very real problems.

"If people are thrown out onto the street hungry, with no money, no likelihood of employment and no command of the English language they will inevitably resort to methods that most of us would find reprehensible.

"There has been a little crime wave due not only to some petty difficulties where people are stealing food, but to some greater instances involving a number of quite serious cases.

"The homelessness problem is becoming real.

"The agencies are recruiting energetically in Poland, Latvia and the former Czechoslovakia.

They are exploiting these people, both as landlords and employment agencies.

"The local authority has noted an increase of begging in the street.

"There is a growth of resentment in the host population both in the workplace and the area in which these people are dumped, sometimes 50 to a house."

She told the Guardian this week: "I hope that both the people who are employing immigrant workers and the sensible people of Crewe and Nantwich will be able to evolve a helpful way for them to become involved in the community."