KOTA KINABALU: The delay in repatriating undocumented migrants is due to restrictions by their respective home countries which do not allow large numbers of their citizens to return at one time, says Immigration Department director-general Datuk Seri Khairul Dzaimee Daud.
He said those countries only allowed for about 20 to 30 citizens to be deported at one time during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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