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"There must be no hiding place from the law and these figures demonstrate our determination to curb immigration offending and disrupt unscrupulous employers," she added.

Arrests for illegal work have doubled in a year as police focus on "unscrupulous" employers who exploit undocumented migrants, the government says.

Some of these children may have been obtained by unscrupulous means, with parents like Ms Han alleging their children were kidnapped.

The officials expressed concern over the potential for unscrupulous buyers to wield the data against consumers.

On social media sites, some indignant residents speculated that the acts were committed by unscrupulous developers who “wanted the trees gone” or were orchestrated secretly by the City of Los Angeles.