ANTI-DEPORTATION activists shut down a Home Office depot near Heathrow airport today by staging a lock-on blockade that caused staff to be sent home.

Four protesters chained themselves to the gates of Eaton House in Hounslow, from where immigration vans leave throughout the day to try to locate people wanted for deportation.

Snatch squads of immigration enforcement officers target homes and workplaces, where they make arrests without warning.