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FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1988

JOINT ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION OPERATION MOUNTED

A TERRITORY-WIDE

ANTI-1LLEGAL IMMIGRATION OPERATION JOUSPLY MOUNTED BY THE POLICE, AND THE LABOUR AND IMMIGRATION DEPARTMETTS YESTERDAY (THURSDAY) HAS RESULTED IN THE ARRESTS OF 78 PERSONS.

THE OPERATION WAS PART OF THE TO FLUSH OUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

GOVERNMENT'S CONTINUOUS II FORT

OF THE ARRESTED PERSONS, EIGHT WERE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CAUGHT AT THE BORDER. THEY HAVE BEEN SENT TO SAN UK LING FOR REPATRIATION.

THE REMAINING 70 HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT AND THE POLICE FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION. THOSE FOUND TO BE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WILL BE REPATRIATED.

A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN REITERATED TODAY (FRIDAY) THAT TUERE WAS NO QUESTION OF ANY AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

THAT THERE

"OUR LATEST OPERATION SHOULD DRIVE HOME THE POINT WILL BE NO CHANGE TO THIS POLICY, ANYONE FOOLISH ENOUGH ΤΟ BELIEVE OTHERWISE IS ONLY CHEATING HIMSELF, HE SAID.

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THE SPOKESMAN NOTED THAT APART

FROM CONTINUOUS CHECKS

THROUGHOUT D'INEGRATION EFFORTS AT THE BORDER.

THE TERRITORY, THERE WAS NO LET-UP IN ANTI-ILLEGAL

A HIGH STATE OF VIGILANCE WILL CONTINUE TO ВГ MAINTAINED BY THE POLICE AND THE SECURITY FORCES BOTH AT THE LAND AND SEA BORDERS, HE SAID.

DURING THE JOINT OPERATION, WILICTI BEGAN AT 5 AM YESTERDAY AND ENDED THIS MORNING, THE POLICE HAD STEPPED UP THEIR IDENTIFICATION SPOT CHECKS IN PUBLIC PLACES AND CARRIED OUT CHECKS AT SUSPICIOUS LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.

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AS A RESULT A TOTAL OF 43,824 PERSONS, 5,177 VESSELS WERE STOPPED FOR IDENTIFICATION CHECKS.

VEHICLES AND

A TOTAL OF TWO PERSONS WERE PROSECUTED FOR FAILING TO PRODUCE PROPER PROOF OF IDENTITY, 16 WERE SUMMONED AND A FURTHER SEVEN WERE WARNED IN RESPECT OF THIS OFFENCE, WHICH CARRIES A MAXIMUM FINE OF $1,000.

ON THE LABOUR FRONT, INSPECTORS OF THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT VISITED 2,817 ESTABLISHMENTS TO WEED OUT ANY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WIIO MAY BE WORKING, ANDE TO CHECK THAT EMPLOYERS FULFIL THEIR LEGAL OBLIGATION OF KEEPING PROPER RECORDS OF THEIR EMPLOYFES.

A TOTAL OF NINE PERSONS IN

OF

IDENTITY

WITHOUT PROPER PROOP

IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT FOR FURTHER

NINE ESTABLISHMENTS AND BAVE BEEN INVESTIGATION.

WERE FOUND

THE

ΤΟ REFERRED

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