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PIRAY, AUGUST 26, 1988

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JOINT ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION OPERATION MOUNTED

A TERRITORY-WIDE ANTI-ILLEGAL. IMMIGRATION OPFRATION JOINTLY MOUNTED BY THE POLICE, AND THE LABOUR AND IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENTS YESTERDAY (THURSDAY) HAS RESULTED IN THE ARRESTS OF 81 PERSONS.

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

GOVERNMENT'S CONTINUOUS EFFORT

OF THE ARRESTED PERSONS, 12 WERE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CAUGHT AT THE BORDER. THEY HAVE BEEN SENT TO SAN UK LING FOR REPATRIATION.

THE REMAINING 69 HAVE BEEN REFERRED то THE DEPARTMENT AND THE POLICE FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION. BE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WILL BE REPATRIATED.

|MMIGRATION

THOSE FOUND ΤΟ

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

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

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THE SPOKESMAN NOTED THAT APART FROM CONTINUOUS CHECKS THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY, THERE WAS NO LET-UP IN ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION EFFORTS AT THE BORDER.

BORDERS,

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

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

AS A RESULT, A TOTAL OF 31.243 PERSONS, 3,066 1,297 VESSELS WERE STOPPED FOR IDENTIFICATION CHECKS.

YESTERDAY AND IDENTIFICATION AT SUSPICIOUS

TWENTY-FOUR PERSONS WERE SUMMONED FOR FAILING PROPER PROOF OF IDENTITY AND A FURTHER 26 WERE WARNED IN THIS OFFENCE, WHICH CARRIES A MAXIMUM FINE OF $1,000.

ILLEGAL

VEHICLES AND

TO PRODUCE RESPECT OF

IMMIGRANTS WHO

ON THE LABOUR FRONT, INSPECTORS OF THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT VISITED 2,383 ESTABLISHMENTS TO WEED OUT ANY MAY BE WORKING, AND ΤΟ CHECK THAT EMPLOYERS FULFIL THEIR LEGAL OBLIGATION OF KEEPING PROPER RECORDS OF THEIR EMPLOYEES.

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