UN Malaysia moves against illegal immigrants

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-moves-against-illegal-immigrants

KUANTAN • Malaysia's Immigration Department has said it will intensify ongoing efforts to round up illegal immigrants beginning next month.

The department's director-general Mustafar Ali said last Friday that more than 3,000 illegal immigrants have been arrested nationwide under an operation launched on July 1.

The operation will kick up a gear from Aug 31, he told reporters, and issued a call for offenders to surrender before then.

Employers who hire and harbour illegal foreign workers will also be detained, he said.

"We have started the voluntary surrender programme, which enables all illegal immigrants in the country to return to their countries of origin voluntarily," Mr Mustafar told reporters.

"So, they still have the chance to surrender until Aug 30 before we take a more firm approach."



Malaysia periodically conducts mass deportation of illegal migrants, with the last round held in July last year.

At that time, officials said 600,000 foreign nationals were working illegally in the country.

Malaysia has some two million registered foreign workers, most of whom are in menial or service jobs in plantations, construction sites, restaurants, as well as office buildings and malls.

According to reports, most of the foreign nationals in the country are from Indonesia, Bangladesh and Myanmar, including ethnic Rohingya.

 

[millais]

including ethnic Rohingya

When even a fellow kebab country won't take you in as refugees, really makes you think if they are worth saving in the first place.

 

[skiddlez]

Resisting the urge to just say "good."

I understand illegal immigration as an idea. It makes sense that if you live in a shithole that you'd want to move somewhere more promising for the welfare of yourself and your family. Sometimes it's entirely forgivable: nobody is mad at North Korean defectors for escaping North Korea. The problem lies in the burden that it creates for others. Like it or not, nobody is responsible for you except your parents. Nations are not responsible for the choices of shithole neighboring nations. A successful pressure or even overthrow of power is going to help these nations and the people of the nations far more than a few slipping past a border and putting problems on others. You fix the problems at the source. For example, literally everyone would celebrate a successful overthrow of North Korean tyranny.

It's an understandable thing to do but not the right thing to do, and deporting these people is also a completely understandable thing to do as nations need to look out for their own well-being.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

>TFW you kebab so hard that even your fellow kebabs start removing you

 

[Cthulu]

Bet they dgaf if they separate parents and children

 

[CWCissey]

Hey Lefties! Where's the outrage here huh? You love yourselves some fuckin' Rohingya don't ya?

 

[Splendid]

When even a fellow kebab country won't take you in as refugees, really makes you think if they are worth saving in the first place.

Muslim majority nations are actually pretty bad at this as far as I can tell. Look at Iran, they haven't taken anyone in.

 

[Zarkov]

Hey Lefties! Where's the outrage here huh? You love yourselves some fuckin' Rohingya don't ya?

"It's okay when non-white do it."

 

[Silence of the Troons]

Is it islamophobic to deport illegal Muslim immigrants if the people conducting the deportations are also Muslims?

 

[CWCchange]

When even a fellow kebab country won't take you in as refugees, really makes you think if they are worth saving in the first place.

"It's okay when non-white do it."

I recall when a deal was made to send Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh back to Burma, despite that they're basically Bengals caught between arbitrary borders. Whenever it's a developed country, it's "refugees are here to stay, goyim" and "they'll pay your pensions and rebuild your infrastructure!" I'm tired of that bullshit argument about developing countries unable to take in refugees because they don't have the welfare systems to take care of them. The U.N. could literally draft one in less than a week, but of course, it's like there's some ulterior motive...

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Muslims are the most islamaphobic people of all! It's just against the other brands of islam

 

[GnomeofDoc]

Muslim majority nations are actually pretty bad at this as far as I can tell. Look at Iran, they haven't taken anyone in.

They shoot Afghanistan migrants at the border. Ain’t no body want that shit. Except for the interpreters they cool.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/sout...es-tells-filipinos-malaysia-brace-immigration

Philippines tells Filipinos in Malaysia to brace for immigration crackdown

The Philippine embassy ‘is ready to provide assistance to Filipinos, who may be affected by the intensified immigration operations’


PUBLISHED : Friday, 31 August, 2018, 9:21am
UPDATED : Friday, 31 August, 2018, 9:21am

The Philippine government has told Filipinos in Malaysia to brace for a possible crackdown on illegal immigrants in the Southeast Asian country, where it estimates about 400,000 Filipinos live illegally.

The Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila said a Malaysian amnesty programme for illegal immigrants that began in 2016 ended on Thursday and advised Filipinos, especially those without immigration permits, to expect a crackdown as early as Friday.

The Philippine Embassy in Malaysia has helped 5,844 Filipinos without immigration papers since the amnesty was launched in January 2016, the department said. It added that the number is less than 1 per cent of the estimated 400,000 undocumented Filipinos in Malaysia.

“We are reminding our countrymen in Malaysia, particularly those without legal immigration status, that the amnesty programme ends today,” Philippine Ambassador to Malaysia Charles Jose said in the statement.

Jose advised Filipinos who comply with Malaysian immigration requirements “to exercise due prudence and to ensure they carry their legal documents at all times”.

The Philippine Embassy “is ready to provide assistance to Filipinos, who may be affected by the intensified immigration operations,” Jose said.

The Philippines is a major labour exporter and has faced many migrant labour crises.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte banned the deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait after the body of a Filipino domestic worker was discovered in a freezer in a Kuwaiti home in February, in what he said was the latest in a growing number of deaths and abuse of impoverished Filipino maids in the oil-rich Arab nation.

Kuwait expelled the Filipino ambassador and recalled its envoy to Manila at the height of the diplomatic crisis, which later eased after the governments negotiated a new accord seeking better conditions for Filipino workers.

About a tenth of the more than 100 million Filipinos work and live abroad, many of them to escape poverty and a lack of opportunity at home. The earnings they send home have helped keep the Philippine economy afloat.

Many of the Filipinos in Malaysia have worked on plantations, in business establishments or as maids for decades. Crackdowns against illegal immigrants in Malaysia in the past have led to the deportation of thousands of mostly poor Filipinos, while others have languished in Malaysian jails.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

An update:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/bangladesh-arrests-10-rohingya-bound-for-malaysia-10984522

Bangladesh arrests 10 Rohingya bound for Malaysia

Bangladesh is home to around a million Rohingya, most of whom fled Myanmar last year following a military crackdown and are now housed in vast camps. (Photo: AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Bangladeshi police have arrested 10 Rohingya refugees as they were about to board a boat to travel to Malaysia, an officer said Friday (Nov 30).

Southeast Bangladesh is home to around a million Rohingya, most of whom fled Myanmar last year following a military crackdown and are now in vast camps.


There are fears that with the current calmer weather, many may try to reach other more prosperous countries by boat by paying often unscrupulous traffickers.



The elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said it stopped the six young women and four men at Shah Porir Dwip, a coastal station, on Thursday night before they could board a boat on the Naf river estuary dividing Bangladesh and Myanmar.

"They were about to head to Malaysia through the Bay of Bengal. The girls won't be aged more than 22 years. They were tempted that they can get married with well-off persons in Malaysia," RAB Cox's Bazar chief Mahedi Hasan told AFP.

People smugglers in recent years have taken tens of thousands of Rohingya to Malaysia before Bangladesh launched a crackdown in 2015 after Thai authorities discovered mass graves and overcrowded boats drifting at sea.

Hasan said the women paid US$100 each to traffickers and the men paid nearly US$250. "Each of them were supposed to pay another 200,000 taka (nearly US$2,500) once the boat crosses Thai waters," he said.

A Bangladeshi trafficker was also arrested, he added.

RAB said two of those who were arrested came to Bangladesh from Myanmar in 2000-2001. The rest were part of exodus of around 720,000 last year.

Early this month the Bangladeshi coastguard intercepted a boat in the Bay of Bengal carrying 33 Rohingya to Malaysia.

The sea tends to stay calm between November and March. During this time of year even small boats can travel long distances via the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.

https://www.nst.com.my/world/2018/11/436046/bangladesh-arrests-rohingya-bound-malaysia

Bangladesh arrests Rohingya bound for Malaysia

(File pix) Ten Rohingya men seen in Myanmar. Archive image for illustration purposes only. Handout via Reuters Photo
By AFP - November 30, 2018 @ 4:19pm
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Bangladeshi police have arrested 10 Rohingya refugees as they were about to board a boat to travel to Malaysia, an officer said Friday.

Southeast Bangladesh is home to around a million Rohingya, most of whom fled Myanmar last year following a military crackdown and are now in vast camps.

There are fears that with the current calmer weather, many may try to reach other more prosperous countries by boat by paying often unscrupulous traffickers.

The elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said it stopped the six young women and four men at Shah Porir Dwip, a coastal station, on Thursday night before they could board a boat on the Naf river estuary dividing Bangladesh and Myanmar.

"They were about to head to Malaysia through the Bay of Bengal. The girls won't be aged more than 22 years. They were tempted that they can get married with well-off persons in Malaysia," RAB Cox's Bazar chief Mahedi Hasan told AFP.

People smugglers in recent years have taken tens of thousands of Rohingya to Malaysia before Bangladesh launched a crackdown in 2015 after Thai authorities discovered mass graves and overcrowded boats drifting at sea.

Hasan said the women paid US$100 each to traffickers and the men paid nearly US$250. "Each of them was supposed to pay another 200,000 taka (nearly US$2,500) once the boat crosses Thai waters," he said.


A Bangladeshi trafficker was also arrested, he added.

RAB said two of those who were arrested came to Bangladesh from Myanmar in 2000-2001. The rest were part of an exodus of around 720,000 last year.

Early this month, the Bangladeshi coastguard intercepted a boat in the Bay of Bengal carrying 33 Rohingya to Malaysia.

The sea tends to stay calm between November and March. During this time of year even small boats can travel long distances via the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. -- AFP

 

[repentance]

An update:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/bangladesh-arrests-10-rohingya-bound-for-malaysia-10984522



https://www.nst.com.my/world/2018/11/436046/bangladesh-arrests-rohingya-bound-malaysia

Are they stopping all Rohingya from leaving Bangladesh or only those using people smugglers?