KOTA KINABALU: A total of 469 Filipinos with various immigration violations were deported to their country of origin through the Sandakan port in east coast Sabah on Thursday (Dec 8).
Sabah Immigration director Datuk SH Sitti Saleha Habib Yusoff said the deportees comprised 385 men, 60 women and 24 children, adding this was the 20th in the series of deportation completed this year.
“The deportees only involved those detained at the Immigration depot in Tawau,” she said, in a statement here on Friday . “The penalties imposed are based on the Immigration Act and the country’s laws which also involved up to the point of deportation,” she added. “We would like to remind all foreign nationals to ensure their travel papers are valid as well as having work permits to work in Sabah that are approved by the authorities before entering Malaysia.
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