KUWAIT (MEMO) – The Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior deported 11,000 residency law violators, of different nationalities, between January and April. Local newspaper Al Rai quoted security sources confirming that the deportation of violators comes within the framework of regulating the demographics and prosecuting violators of residency and employment laws. It noted that the deportation of the violators was carried out under the instructions of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Minister of Interior and Defense Sheikh Talal al-Khalid and the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior Lieutenant General Anwar al-Barjas. The deportations were intended to intensify campaigns in all governorates of the country to maintain security and monitor and control all residency violators.