More Vietnamese Rounded up for Deportation - Illegal VN fishermen busted

Ros Chanveasna

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Cambodia’s campaign against illegal Vietnamese workers continues with 26 Vietnamese arrested in two days of raids on furniture factories in central and southern Phnom Penh.

“After questioning at the Immigration Department, all these Vietnamese nationals found working in wood factories had no valid travel documents or work permits,” Major General Uk Heisela, chief investigator at the Ministry’s Immigration Department, said in an interview.

Although, Vietnam’s per capita income of $2,000 a year is double Cambodia’s, some Vietnamese migrate here, often without visas or work permits, because there are job opportunities, and until recently, fewer bureaucratic controls than in Communist-run Vietnam.

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Authorities in Koh Kong province arrested 26 Vietnamese nationals on Tuesday after they found the group illegally living and fishing off of King Island in Kiri Sakor district.

Immigration police found one person with a Vietnamese identification card, while the rest were undocumented, said Gen Mara, chief of immigration police in Koh Kong.

They seized seven boats from the suspects.

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