If they could not produce the three documents, they were put on a train to their home place and their families made to pay the train ticket. I think the new documents are part of the Olympic bid. According to official figures, police last year rounded up 295,000 migrants without the proper documents and sent them home, after a period of compulsory labour. Mr Du said the police methods were excessive, with officers using guns and each station having a quota of arrests to meet. People speak of human rights, but this is a step back.
Many migrants have no documents.
The police methods seem to have support among the public support, with most of the city's crime blamed on migrants and complain they make the traffic worse, fill the buses and subway trains and worsen conditions in an already overcrowded city. Despite this, the migrants do not attract the same resentment as in Shanghai or many other cities in the world. This is normal. The migrants bring money and business and create wealth. Besides, we Beijing people are lazy and are unwilling to do many of the jobs they do, even if we are out of work.