Twenty-two people will be deported after they were caught living in Malta illegally, the police said.
They were found during inspections carried out by the police and the detention services in Marsa and Qormi on Wednesday, the police said in a statement.
The people who were caught hail from Ghana, Gambia, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
They were all taken to the police headquarters in Floriana where the process that would lead to their deportation was initiated.