Riyadh, April 27 -- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has arrested 19,050 violators of residency, labour, and border security laws across the Kingdom from Thursday, April 18 to Wednesday, April 24.

Those arrested included 11,987 violators of the residency laws, about 4,367 violators of the border security regulations, and more than 2,696 violators of the labour law.

A total of 1,011 people were arrested while trying to cross the border into the Kingdom, of whom 61 percent were Ethiopian, 36 percent Yemeni, and 3 percent were of other nationalities while 24 people were arrested for trying to flee the Kingdom crossing borders.

The security forces also arrested 18 people who were involved in transporting violators and giving them shelter....