HOME MINISTER’S & IMMIGRATION DG’S ACTION LAUDED FOR ACTION ON ILLEGALS!
‘Even last week an immigration team lead by DG Khairul Dzaimee Daud detained business outlets set up by foreigners employing illegals and operation that was very well executed!
It was a great success!
It is time to get rid of the illegal’s safe havens and those who provide them insulation!’
HOME MINISTER’S & IMMIGRATION DG’S ACTION LAUDED FOR ACTION ON ILLEGALS SAYS MALAYSIA ASEAN APEC LEAD CONSUMERIST PROF DR JACOB GEORGE!
Being a Consumer Advocate and having worked alongside the Home Ministry over 40 years in addressing security matters and the many challengers and threats that confront us from the huge numbers of documented and undocumented workers and foreigners, I cannot but congratulate current Home Minister, Hamzah Zainudin and the Immigration Director General Khairul Dzaimee Daud, for being the first to put a strategic plan along time lines open to audit, which includes a joint inter-ministerial task force.
The plan is a strict departure from previously announced initiatives which at worst, were allegedly still born in view saboteurs!
Manpower is a multi-billion ringgit industry and one should never underestimate the reach and influence of insiders, politicians, political war lords, industry players, brokers, foreign agents and predators!
The predators are very well connected.
Just minutes after a high powered meeting was conveyed these foreign manpower conduits, namely Bangladesh operatives, had in their possession official letterheads on the matter dated 20th September 2021!
As such, my humble opinion is these five key strategies must be strictly enforced:
For the strategy to work, it is pertinent that a new but experienced team be put in place reporting directly to the Home Minister and a special task force set up comprising of experienced members from the security apparatus, various ministries and the qualified NGO professionals!
Without this framework in place, this strategy like its many forerunners since the 80’s will see failure!
The Home Minister has been comprehensively correct and on the ball that it is time we make the Eco-system, where these illegals live and move be made highly uncomfortable!
Basically it is community effort here,
Simple, serious, direct grassroots response and highly effective!
A strategy that involves the state governments, local authorities, village community management councils and village development, security and housing estate committees!
We can all spot a foreigner and stranger in our community!
And we must do our part!
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Even last week an immigration team lead by DG Khairul Dzaimee Daud detained business outlets set up by foreigners employing illegals and operation that was very well executed!
It is time to get rid of the illegal’s safe havens and those who provide them insulation!
It is also pertinent to ask why there are still Malaysian employers using illegal foreign labor?
It is well known that these employers face penalties based on our Criminal Procedure Code: heavy fines; possible imprisonment; caning when caught employing more than five illegal workers.
No ordinary employer will sneezed at the penalties but the fact remains staring us in the face, foreigners can still find employment illegally.
The inference is super obvious.
The Home Ministry herself confirms that between Jan 1 and June 4 in 2019 the Immigration Department had carried out 7,940 operations, during which almost 100,000 foreigners were screened.
That legal action had also been taken against 23,295 Pati, with Indonesian nationals making up the highest number of those arrested at 8,011 (34 percent), followed by Bangladeshis (5,272 or 23 percent) and the remaining comprising those from Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and others.
No small number these.
But we have a saying that for every one offender caught ten get away!
And that is never a joke!
It is obvious that the benefits of cheap labor far outweigh the fear of getting caught, which, in turn, means that enforcement is either far from adequate or officers can be bought off.
Given the reports of corruption in the Immigration Department and other security apparatus structures following the human trafficking scandals recently, this is a serious probability which has to be addressed, not ignored or swept under the carpet!
I remember that even once not long ago, Tun Mahathir Mohamad, had remarked both on the sine-bio-tic relationship between corruption and illegals!
I have repeatedly stated that the danger facing Malaysia, which includes terrorism, is real, given the danger of our open borders and recent arrests!
All entry and exit points must be plugged because the situation is no longer a benign one of “helping thy neighbor”, the poor from neighboring countries in a simple quid pro quo arrangement!
All law abiding peace loving Malaysians, do pray that the efforts now proposed will address what was previously a labor shortage issue now transformed into one with internal security implications!
And locals, foreigners and their conduits, whosoever they may be, in the process must be treated as a security risk and action taken immediately!