| Singapore employs hi-tech gadgets to catch illegal migrants | ||||
Agence France Presse March 4, 2001 SINGAPORE SINGAPORE will deploy hi-tech mobile gadgets at its border checkpoints with Malaysia to detect illegal migrants and drug traffickers, the Sunday Times reported Mar 4. Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng told reporters March 3 that mobile x-ray machines, sophisticated radar and heat-detecting cameras would be used at the Woodlands and Tuas border checkpoints by the end of the year. "When Singapore continues to attract workers here, it will invariably also attract those who do not come here legally," Wong said. More than 12,000 illegal migrants were arrested last year. Affluent Singapore has become a magnet for people in poorer Southeast Asian nations, turning human smuggling into a multi-million dollar operation. |
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