SANDAKAN: The Sabah Immigration Department deported 670 undocumented Filipino migrants on Thursday from the Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan Immigration Detention Depots.
Sabah Immigration Director Datuk SH Sitti Saleha Habib Yussof said the group included individuals aged one to 79, comprising adult men and women, as well as children.
“In cooperation with the Philippine Embassy and in consideration of humanitarian and human rights principles, we facilitated travel documents for 536 adult men, 89 adult women, 21 boys, and 24 girls for repatriation to Zamboanga City,” she said in a statement.
To date, a total of 3,370 Filipino nationals have been deported from Sabah, bringing the total number of foreign detainees repatriated this year to 4,198.
The deportees were found to have violated Sections 15(1)(c) and 6(1)(c) of the Immigration Act 1959/63 (Act 155) and the Immigration Regulations 1963 for overstaying and entering Malaysia without valid documents.
