316 Filipinos are deported

Kota Kinabalu: A total of 316 Filipinos were repatriated via Sandakan Port in a joint collaboration between the Immigration Department and the Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.

This is the first series of a Repatriation Programme for Illegal Immigrants this year organised by the Immigration Department with cooperation from the embassy headed by Consul General Anne Jalando- On Louis. 

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