Police and border guards arrest 77 illegal aliens in dawn raid in Katowice

Police and border guards conducted a dawn raid on a hotel in Katowice yesterday as a part of an action to clamp down on illegal immigrants. After surrounding the hotel, they checked for stolen cars and later searched rooms to find a number of garments with counterfeit brand names. Seventy-seven out of 100 of the immigrants were in Poland illegally or had outdated documents. Most foreigners, young men mainly from Armenia, were working at the nearby bazaar and said after being deported, they would surely come back. As a result of similar actions the police have already deported 173 immigrants. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 4) P.S.