Guwahati: Assam Rifles has intensified vigil on the Indo-Myanmar border even as Home Ministry (MHA) directed border states to take action to “check influx from Myanmar”.
The MHA communication asked the state authorities to refer to past instructions to promptly identify “illegal migrants” and take steps to deport them. The Ministry’s letter reiterated that states have no powers to grant refugee status to any foreigner.
Amid violence and crackdown on anti-military coup protestors, the number of migrants from Myanmar including police personnel seeking shelter in Mizoram has gone up to at least 148, according to a security source in the state.
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