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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1992
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JOINT ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION OPERATION MOUNTED
JOINTLY DEPARTMENTS
A
TERRITORY-WIDE
ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION OPERATION
MOUNTED BY THE POLICE, THE LABOUR AND IMMIGRATION RECENTLY HAS RESULTED IN THE ARRESTS OF 100 PERSONS.
THE OPERATION WAS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT'S CONTINUOUS EFFORT TO GET RID OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
OF THE ARRESTED PERSONS, 11 WERE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CAUGHT THE BORDER. THEY HAVE BEEN SENT TO SAN UK LING FOR REPATRIATION.
AT
REMAINING THE
DEPARTMENT
89 HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO THE IMMIGRATION AND THE POLICE FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION. BE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WILL BE REPATRIATED.
THOSE FOUND
TO
A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN REITERATED TODAY (THURSDAY) THAT WILL NOT BE ANY AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
THERE
"OUR
THAT LATEST OPERATION SHOULD DRIVE HOME THE POINT
TO WILL
ANYONE FOOLISH ENOUGH BE NO CHANGE TO THIS POLICY. OTHERWISE IS ONLY CHEATING HIMSELF," HE SAID.
THERE BELIRVE
THE SPOKESMAN SAID APART FROM CONTINUOUS CHECKS THROUGHOUT TERRITORY, THERE WAS NO LET-UP IN ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION EFFORTS THE BORDER.
"A
THE
AT
BY
BORDERS,
"
MAINTAINED HIGH STATE OF VIGILANCE WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE POLICE AND THE SECURITY FORCES BOTH AT THE LAND AND SEA HE SAID.
AND
DURING THE JOINT OPERATION, WHICH BEGAN AT 5 AM YESTERDAY
THEIR IDENTIFICATION ENDED AT 5 AM TODAY, THE POLICE HAD STEPPED UP
CHECKS AT SUSPICIOUS SPOT CHECKS IN PUBLIC PLACES AND CARRIED OUT LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.
AS A RESULT, A TOTAL OF 9,044 PERSONS, 1,329 VEHICLES AND VESSELS WERE STOPPED FOR IDENTIFICATION CHECKS.
269
SEVEN PERSONS WERE SUMMONSED AND FOUR FAILING TO PRODUCE PROPER PROOF OF IDENTITY.
PERSONS
CHARGED FOR
ON
THE LABOUR
FRONT, INSPECTORS
OF
LABOUR THE
DEPARTMENT
AND
IMMIGRANTS WHO THEIR LEGAL
VISITED 3,146 ESTABLISHMENTS TO WEED OUT ANY ILLEGAL MAY BE WORKING,
TO CHECK THAT EMPLOYERS FULFIL OBLIGATION OF KEEPING PROPER RECORDS OF THEIR EMPLOYEES.
A TOTAL OF 10,968 EMPLOYEES HAD THEIR PROOF OF IDENTITY CHECKED DURING THE OPERATION.
TWENTY-NINE ESTABLISHMENTS WERE FOUND NOT ABLE TO PROVIDE INSPECTION A RECORD OF EMPLOYEES.
FOR
ONE
THE SPOKESMAN REMINDED EMPLOYERS THAT THEY COULD BE FINED UP TO
YEAR IF THEY WERE $50,000 AND JAILED FOR UP TO EMPLOYING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
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