Scare tactics to stop illegals

Scare tactics to stop illegals

SINGAPORE (DPA): Passengers aboard ferries between Indonesia
and Singapore are being treated to video clips showing illegal
immigrants being arrested and handcuffed by Singaporean
authorities, reports said yesterday.

The videos, aimed at scaring illegal immigrants away, also
show Singapore officers raiding construction sites and
apartments, and combing the jungle for illicit foreign workers.

"They are strict with (illegal) immigrants here. I have to
tell my friends back home," the Straits Times quoted Indonesian
accountant Hidayat Achmad, 48, as saying after seeing one of the
clips.

The 20-minute videos have been shown for the past few weeks on
board ferries which run between Singapore and the nearby
Indonesian islands of Batam and Bintan. They are also screened on
monitors at Singapore's World Trade Center and Tanah Merah ferry
terminal.