Illegal immigrant arrests drop by 30 percent: police

Beijing police foiled 321 cases of planned illegal migration, involving 387 people, at the end of September, a decrease of 39 percent, statistics show.

Among them, 263 are Chinese citizens who intended to go abroad illegally, while another 124 are foreigners, who attempted to enter into China or go to other countries via China with the help of human smugglers.

The world economic recession may help explain the decrease, said an official from Beijing general station of exit and entry frontier inspection yesterday.