Immigration swoop on building site nets 107 illegals


Cornered: Some of the foreign workers rounded up in the raid on a construction site in Butterworth.

BUTTERWORTH: The state Immigration Department detained 107 foreigners at a construction site near Jalan Chain Ferry here during the ‘Ops Bersepadu’.

The 85 officers in the raid that included Civil Defence Department and Rela members had surrounded the seven-storey building before moving in.

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