PUTRAJAYA: Employers that hire undocumented migrants are in the crosshairs of the Immigration Department.
Immigration director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh told a press conference here Monday (Aug 19) that the department conducted 11,903 operations between Jan 1 and Friday (Aug 16).
"From those operations, we arrested 29,030 undocumented migrants. We also arrested 900 employers in the same time frame.
"For our focus moving forward, we will (focus on errant) employers.
"We see a growing number of undocumented migrants out there working.
"Who is contributing to this number by hiring them? It's the employers.
"If they don't hire, we won't see them in shops," he said, adding that employers have to be reasonable.
"We will charge them in court. It is an offence," he added.
