Illegal workers' 'get out of jail free' cards fail to work on Immigration officers


PETALING JAYA: A group of nine illegal workers with so-called "immunity cards" thought the law could not touch them, but they quickly learnt they had been scammed when they were arrested by Immigration Department officers.

The Department on Tuesday (Feb 6) had raided a factory in Pandan Indah and arrested the nine for various immigration offences.

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