SAUDI ARABIA

68,263 illegals netted in crackdown until Thursday

November 25, 2017

Saudi Gazette report

RIYADH – The number of people arrested in a crackdown on residency and labor law violators all over the Kingdom has reached 68,263 until Thursday, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday quoting official sources.

Of those detained, 38,006 were violators of residency regulations, 13,099 were violators of border security and 17,158 labor law violators. A total of 970 people were arrested while they were trying to sneak into the country across the border. The majority of them were Yemenis (80 percent) followed by Ethiopians (19 percent). Border security authorities deported 564 of the detainees.

The border guards arrested 11 people who were trying to leave the Kingdom by illegally crossing the border.

SPA said 331 people were arrested for providing shelter, transportation and assistance to run cover-up business operations to the violators. They included 43 Saudis.

Seventeen of the detained Saudis were released after slapping them with fines on the spot while 26 others were handed over to various authorities for completing procedures against them.

The number of violators undergoing regulatory procedures at the Deportation Departments totaled 10,713. Of these, 9,639 were men and 1,074 were women.

The report said 9,868 violators were deported, 6,378 received on the spot penalties and 6,112 referred to their respective diplomatic missions while 7,075 have been referred to the pertinent authorities to complete their deportation procedures.


November 25, 2017
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