He said this during a speech at a meeting on the development of the district.
“During the preventive measures carried out in the Okrug, numerous facts of the participation of foreign labor migrants in the transportation and distribution of drugs were revealed.
More than 600 citizens of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Ukraine have been prosecuted, ”TASS quotes him.
Earlier, URA.RU reported that the president of the All-Russian public organization "Federation of Migrants of Russia" Vadim Kozhenov said that almost 300 thousand migrants expelled from Russia for various offenses will be able to return to the country.
At the end of September, the head of the Main Directorate for Migration Issues of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Valentina Kazakova, said that they were trying to criminalize the image of a migrant in Russia with the aim of generating hostility towards foreigners in Russian society.