South Korean Government Announces That It Will Launch An Illegal Immigration Crackdown

I wonder if Donald Trump will mention South Korea’s illegal immigration crackdown on the campaign trail?:

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The government said Monday it will clamp down on foreigners staying in South Korea without proper visas and reduce the rate of illegal aliens in the country below 10 percent by 2018.

The government will selectively allow entry to foreigners with low possibility of violating the immigration control law and beef up screening of visa issuance, it said during a planning committee meeting on foreigners policy held in Seoul.

The government’s move is in response to a recent series of airport-related security problems that caused alarm bells to go off.

In January, two Chinese nationals snuck into the country without being noticed by immigration officials or picked up by the airport’s security systems. Later in the same month, a Vietnamese transfer passenger forced his way through the gate of an unmanned automatic immigration checkpoint without being checked.

All the people that entered South Korea illegally were later apprehended.

Last year, 11.3 percent of foreigners in South Korea were believed to be staying here illegally, according to the Ministry of Justice.  [Yonhap]

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johnnyboy
johnnyboy
8 years ago

Showmanship.

Is this story about lax airport security or people overstaying their visas/breaking contracts with their original employer?

There are too many people making too much money with illegal immigrant labor in South Korea for there to actually be a will for the government to follow through with meaningful changes. Perhaps many of the immigrant workers would never reach illegal status if the government cracked down on employers for working conditions.

South Korea is certainly entitled to (and responsible for) keeping their country secure. I just get peeved when they look the other way on some preventable causes for immigrants going illegal.

Chickenhead,

I have a sneaking suspicion you may have a differing opinion, and I welcome your thoughts. You almost always produce an angle I hadn’t factored in.

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