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Cambodia deports 2,383 illegal immigrants in one year, Scores arrested in construction raid


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Cambodia deports 2,383 illegal immigrants in more than one year

PHNOM PENH, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has deported 2,383 illegal immigrants to their birth countries since April last year until now, according to a report of the General Department of Immigration (GDI) released on Tuesday.

The report said since the GDI was established on April 12, 2014 until now, it had expelled some 2,383 foreigners, including 364 females, to their birth countries for illegally living or working in Cambodia. "Some 2,027, or 85 percent, of the deportees are illegal Vietnamese immigrants," the report said, adding that the rest of them are in 42 nationalities.

On Tuesday morning, GDI officials conducted a census on foreigners at construction sites in Diamond Island satellite city in Phnom Penh and arrested another 131 illegal Vietnamese immigrants, Ouk Hai Seila, chief of the GDI's investigation bureau, said.

read more: http://www.globalpost.com/article/6591467/2015/06/23/cambodia-deports-2383-illegal-immigrants-more-one-year

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Scores arrested in construction raid
Wed, 24 June 2015

KOH PICH:-- More than 200 Vietnamese and Chinese nationals were arrested yesterday at construction sites on Koh Pich in a Ministry of Interior sweep targeting illegal migrant workers.

Police with the ministry picked up 131 Vietnamese nationals, including 21 females, after it was discovered that most had no relevant documents, including passports, allowing them to legally work in Cambodia.

Ouk Hay Seila, head of investigations at the General Department of Immigration, said that the Vietnamese workers would be expelled within a week.

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/scores-arrested-construction-raid

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