KOTA KINABALU: The crackdown against illegal immigrants in Sabah will be stepped up with house-to-house checks on foreign maids who are hired without any documents, said state Immigration Department director Abdullah Sani.
Abdullah said although records showed that some 30,000 Indonesian and Filipino maids were working legally in the state, information from the public indicated that there was a substantial number who were hired without any documents.
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