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Illegal immigrants who cannot return to their country and defectors who have lost their place to go are in the blind spot of the coronavirus.

There are many people, but the living space is poor, so there is a situation where group infection is a concern.



This is reporter Im Sang-beom.



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Foreigner shelter in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do.



This is the place where undocumented foreigners, that is, illegal immigrants, who were caught staying beyond the validity period of the visa, were held.



The facility is already saturated.



[Mongolian/foreigner shelter prisoners: (in one room) 9 people.

There are too many people.

I was so angry that I didn't eat anything.]



The number of foreigners sheltered at the Cheongju Foreigners Shelter, Yeosu Immigration Office, etc., as well as here, has nearly doubled compared to six months ago to 760.



The number of illegal immigrants is approaching 400,000, a record high, as the number of foreigners trapped due to the prolonged corona 19 increase.



The situation of illegal immigrants hiding from the crackdown is more vulnerable.



Living in green houses and camps, there is a huge concern about group infection.



[Udayarai/Chairman of Migrant Workers' Union: Distance cannot be maintained, must be in one room, and are exposed to corona and other diseases.]



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Outside the country, defectors who are bound by their feet are in a blind spot.



In a rural village in Hebei Province, China, North Korean defectors quietly set up a Chuseok Award to avoid the eyes of public security.



[All people to eat come here.] As the



borders are blocked by corona, the situation is getting longer.



[Ji Cheol-ho/North Korean defector human rights activist: I have to come to the Southeast Asian jungle through China, but the roads to Laos or Vietnam are blocked...

It's a situation where you can't go around during the day...

.] The number



of North Korean defectors who entered Korea this year fell by a quarter compared to a year ago, while the number of North Korean defectors wandering through China is estimated to be 100,000.



(Video coverage: Choi Ho-jun and Joo Yong-jin, video editing: Lee Seung-yeol)