The superintendent of police of Aizawl district, Lalbiakthanga Khiangte, said over telephone that the arrests came following an order issued by the Union home ministry on July 21 that the Myanmarese Mizo nationals without valid entry permits could cross the Indo-Myanmar border and travel a maximum of 16km into Mizoram for trading.
But in no case, the order from the Union home ministry pointed out, these Myanmarese nationals will ever be allowed to transgress the 16-km limit into towns and other habitats in Mizoram for earning their livelihood.
Khiangte added that another reason for the crackdown is that many of the immigrants have recently been indulging in narcotics-related crimes.
The 52 people who were picked up during the crackdown, were from two Aizawl settlements known as Ramhlun south and Ramthar Veng.
They were eking out their living there by working in jewellery shops, vehicle service centres, restaurants, clothing factories and road construction labourers.
The number of such illegal immigrants living in Mizoram has now been estimated at about 50,000.
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