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In Fiji, the government has announced new measures to tackle its soaring immigration population.
Scoop World reports that the number of illegal residents in the country has doubled in a year and now stands at more than 8000.
A government source told RNZ Pacific that 90 per cent of offenders were Pacific Islanders who had gone to Fuji to study and then overstayed.
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka admitted that the number of overstayers had exploded from 4709 in January 2023 to more than 8000 within a year.
The PM was asked in parliament last week what the government was doing about the disturbing trend.
Rabuka said, “This assessment will point out emerging trends and issues of border security, identify irregular migration movement and provoke a border security landscape to avoid an increase in numbers.”
