{"id":11520,"date":"2019-03-02T14:12:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T06:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11520"},"modified":"2019-03-02T14:12:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T06:12:43","slug":"integrated-operations-nab-1485-illegals-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11520","title":{"rendered":"Integrated operations nab 1,485 illegals nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"675\" height=\"442\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/illegal-migrate.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11522\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/illegal-migrate.jpg 675w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/illegal-migrate-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/illegal-migrate-600x393.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><figcaption>Photo courtesy bernama<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; A total 1,485 illegals were detained in an integrated operation launched by the Immigration Department of Malaysia (IDM) nationwide from midnight last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IDM director-general Datuk Khairul Dzaimee Daud said the detentions were the results of inspections by IDM with the co-operation of various agencies including the National Registration Department and the Malaysia Civil Defence Force on 3,750 aliens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018\u2019An operation conducted by the IDM headquarters nabbed 218 illegals from 418 aliens inspected at an entertainment centre and two houses in the Klang Valley for various immigration offences,\u2019\u2019 he said in a statement here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said IDM had conducted 2,646 enforcement operations nationwide and inspected 40,321 people since Jan 1 until Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the total, 9,452 illegals of various nationalities were detained for numerous immigration offences including overstaying, entering the country without valid documents and abusing the social visit passes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khairul Dzaimee said 176 employers were also detained during the period while 151 had been charged in court and taken action upon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018\u2019From all the illegals detained, the highest detentions were from Indonesia (3,261) followed by Bangladesh (2,378), Myanmar (868), Philippines (849), and the rest were from other countries,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the Ministry of Home Affairs through IDM would take all the necessary steps and firm action to tackle the issue of illegals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the government would not compromise in ensuring that employers and foreign workers complied with the country\u2019s laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The firm measure, he said was necessary to overcome the problem of the influx of illegals into the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; A total 1,485 illegals were detained in an integrated operation launched by the Immigration Department of Malaysia (IDM) nationwide from midnight last night. IDM director-general Datuk Khairul Dzaimee Daud said the detentions were the results of inspections by IDM with the co-operation of various agencies including the National Registration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11520"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}