Obstacles in fake ID crackdown

Immigration officials vowed yesterday to halt corrupt local authorities from permitting illegal Vietnamese migrants to work in the Kingdom by providing them with identification documents, but admitted they had no system to tell their IDs apart from the genuine ones.

Speaking during the immigration department’s annual meeting yesterday, Nov Leakhena, deputy director of the department, said some authorities at the commune and district level “do not know what the immigration law is”.

Leakhena cited Prek Chrey commune in Kandal province along the Vietnamese border as one place where fraud was rampant, saying that “99 families” claimed they were born in Prek Chrey “even though they cannot speak one word of Khmer – that is an issue”.

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