MELAKA: The state Immigration Department nabbed 13 foreign workers when it raided a hotel here suspected of employing illegal foreign workers in Op Sapu on Tuesday (May 16).
Melaka Immigration director Anirwan Fauzee Mohd Aini said 13 foreign workers in the hotel and seven other suspected illegal immigrants were arrested in separate raids from 9.00am to 11pm
"Among the locations targeted during the raids by the Enforcement Division of the state Immigration Department were food courts, luxury car wash centres and foreign workers housing," he said in a statement on Wednesday . "A total of 41 foreign immigrant workers at the hotel were checked and 13 of them arrested were suspected of overstaying and also violating the conditions of the pass or work permit issued.
In the meantime, he said that on immigration operations in other premises, there were foreigners who acted aggressively and tried to escape during raids without thinking about their own safety.
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