Police nationwide have resolved 14,973 criminal cases about obstructing border administration since the Ministry of Public Security deployed an operation targeting such crimes in December 2020, the National Immigration Administration said on Friday. The police have arrested 35,777 suspects involved in such a crime and arrested 36,921 people who entered and exited the country illegally since December. They have also seized 1,549 vehicles and ships for smuggling and penalized 514 intermediaries and illegal employment enterprises, according to the administration. Liu Haitao, director of the administration"s border inspection department, said in a recently resolved case, the administration and departments under the