Pinoys account for biggest number of illegal immigrants deported from Sabah


Filipinos accounted for the biggest number of illegal immigrants who were deported  from Sabah, Malaysia, since 2013, reports said.
Citing news site Bernama, The Sun Daily reported that the Sabah National Security Council (MKN) and various enforcement agencies repatriated 71,912 Filipinos over the five-year period.
Indonesians (20,264) compose the second largest group of illegal immigrants and other nationalities (1,193) account for the rest, rounding out to a total of 93,315 illegal immigrants sent back to their country of origin.
Sabah MKN director Datuk Rodzi Md Saad said they have sent back a total of 564,087 illegals immigrants from 1990 to January 1, 2018.
A total of 6,191 immigrants are currently held at temporary detention centers around Sabah.
Rodzi said they will bolster their efforts to track down illegal immigrants in the new year and hold integrated operations with the police, Immigration Department and National Registration Department.
Sabah is located on the northern portion of Borneo Island and has land borders with the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and Indonesia's Kalimantan region to the south.
In February 2013, followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III deployed about 200 of his men, some of them armed, to  Sabah to press the royal clan's historical claim on the resource-rich territory, sparking weeks of deadly clashes with Malaysian forces.
The violence in Lahad Datu threatened to strain Manila's warming ties with Malaysia, which has been brokering the country's peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, as calls for the government to revive a long-shelved claim to Sabah emerged. —Rie Takumi/KBK, GMA News

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