KOTA KINABALU: Immigration officers sent home a total of 680 undocumented migrants in the department’s first deportation exercise this year.
The Filipino migrants were deported from the Sandakan Immigration Depot (551 people) and the Tawau Immigration Depot (129 people) on Jan 10.
Sabah Immigration director Datuk Sitti Saleha Habib Yussof said of the total, 552 were men, 93 were women, 31 children under the age of 12 and four were toddlers and babies under the age of two.
"The youngest deported in this group is a six-month-old while the oldest is a 75-year-old," she said.
She said the Immigration Department had deported a total of 8,678 people to their respective countries of origin via sea and air.
Sitti said all detainees under their care were those who committed various offences under the Immigrations Act.
"We will continue to enforce laws and deport undocumented migrants after they have served their sentences under other regulations and following all other legal procedures," she said.
