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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,

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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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