Queensland Police and Immigration Officials have joined
forced in a stinging operation that led to the arrest of a number of Solomon
Islanders, who are working illegally in farms near Brisbane.
According to sources who have witnessed the arrest and the unfolding
events, the workers were on their way to a farm when Immigration Officials and
Police, stopped their vehicle.
Following a search of the vehicle’s occupants, Immigration
Officials and Police Officers found that a number of them had overstayed their
visas with no legal permit to work in Australia.
Sources alleged that the arrest could be the work of
someone, who is not happy with the people concerned, and had decided to report
the individuals to the authorities.
As of this evening, sources claimed that following the
arrest, police and immigration officials took the individuals to a police
station for questioning and later put them in custody.
Sources also confirmed that four other Solomon Islanders
were also arrested early this week and subsequently deported on Tuesday back to
the Solomon Islands.
Recently, some farmers and subcontractors have hired illegal
workers, included students, who had left their studies. Most of them are Indians,
Africans, Middle Eastern, Asians and Pacific Islanders.
Sources closed to some illegal workers, farmers and
sub-contractors, in townships near Brisbane, alleged that similar operations in
the past were failed because someone in the police and immigration had tip-off farmers
and subcontractors before the operations.
In other cases of pure cruelty and slavery, a number of subcontractors
have exploited Solomon Islanders, who are considered by farmers as hard
working, by sending them to work 14 hours per day under the minimum wage in
Australia.
Further details will come shortly… watch this space..
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