Massive operation in Taman Sri Muda: 602 suspected illegal immigrants detained

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A large-scale operation was conducted around the business centre of Taman Sri Muda, Section 25 in Shah Alam on Saturday (Oct 5), targeting areas reportedly monopolised by foreign nationals.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/PPIUt  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00As of 12 o'clock, we have inspected more or less 1,091 of those who we consider as foreigners

00:20or those who are suspected, and of those, 602 we have detained because they are suspected

00:29who have multiple offences.

00:31Either they have an offence under the Immigration Act,

00:34which is called Overstay,

00:36or they do not have the ability to show the correct documents.

00:39Their journey is either from a working permit,

00:42or documents such as passports and so on.

00:45There are 9 countries, from Africa and Southeast Asia.

00:50Bangladesh is the most suspected,

00:53more or less 213 men and 1 woman.

00:56All the detainees today are from the age of 19 to 53,

01:04consisting of 505 men and 97 women.

01:08All of them will be detained for the time being,

01:12at the Semenyih Immigration Depot,

01:14for a second verification,

01:16and then awaiting further action.

01:20Any other questions?

01:23There is, but we cannot tell you.

01:25If we do, it will not happen.

01:27It will be done from time to time,

01:30as I mentioned,

01:32we want to see the impact tomorrow,

01:35after the second verification,

01:37after we take certain actions,

01:39get a response from the public here,

01:41and then we will proceed with the next steps.

01:44This is to handle some of the perceptions,

01:48and also the realities in Akalumbi,

01:53regarding the locality.

01:56God willing, we will come back,

01:58with many locations,

02:00that we will continue to organize.

02:03But, as I mentioned,

02:05the success of the activities and operations today,

02:08was organized from the initial decision we made in April,

02:12and followed by a comprehensive investigation and investigation.

02:17There are many reasons why they want to save themselves,

02:20sometimes they use the term,

02:22left behind,

02:24some say they were cheated,

02:26but those are not the reasons,

02:29that can be solved on the ground.

02:31We will do the second verification later,

02:34and we will also open up opportunities,

02:36for the owners or employees,

02:38for their employees to come,

02:40if there is any documentation,

02:42confirming that they are good workers,

02:44or not.

02:45But, from the whole,

02:4760% are the ones who were cheated,

02:50and maybe that number will decrease starting tomorrow.

02:52But, that's what I said,

02:54we want to see the impact,

02:56after the second verification process,

02:59and the next steps.

03:00How about the employees?

03:03It depends,

03:04there are certain flaws,

03:06and so on.

03:07Usually,

03:09I don't know if anyone dares to come this time,

03:13if the employer has employees,

03:18or employees who don't have documents,

03:22they won't dare to come.

03:24I think they won't dare to come.

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