KAJANG: The Home Ministry hopes to table a working paper to the Cabinet soon to shift children from immigration detention depots.
Its minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said currently, the ministry is in the final stage of collecting data on the number, age and locations of children detained at Immigration depots in the country.
"Currently, there are a total of 1,030 children in 20 Immigration detention depots and they comprise 579 boys and 451 girls. Of the total, 351 of them are in the detention depot with their guardians,” he told a press conference at the sahur programme at the Semenyih Immigration Detention Depot here on Saturday .
"So far, there are five immigration detention depots that provide classes for these children, including at Semenyih, Bukit Jalil Immigration Detention Depot, here, Pekan Nenas Immigration Detention Depot in Johor and Belantik Immigration Detention Depot in Kedah," he said.
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