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KL Crackdown on Illegal Workers

37 Bangladeshis among detained

Staff Correspondent
At least 37 Bangladeshis are among those detained in Malaysia during a nationwide crackdown on illegal immigrants yesterday, reports Malaysian state news agency Barnama.
Saravana Kumar, a deputy director at the Immigration Department of Malaysia, said around 1,000 migrant workers were detained from different provinces of the country during the crackdown.
The security personnel detained 403 foreigners from Melaka, 130 from Sungai Petani, 101 from Johor Baharu and 12 from Kampar for entering Malaysia without valid documents and overstaying, the news agency said.
A local man was also detained for harbouring the illegals.
Malaysian English daily The Star said in a report the crackdown launched by the immigration department, police, armed forces, civil defence and national registration department is the biggest ever drive against unwanted foreigners in the country. It would continue till the end of this year.
The drive targets those who got registered under an amnesty programme in 2011 but did not turn up for further processing, including legalisation and voluntary deportation, the report added.
Meanwhile, nearly 2.7 lakh irregular Bangladeshi workers got registered for legalising their status in Malaysia under the amnesty programme. There are around five lakh Bangladeshi workers in that country.
Contacted over the phone, Bangladesh High Commissioner to Malaysia AKM Atiqur Rahman said around 30,000 Bangladeshis are still irregular.
Many of them failed to get their status regularised for being cheated by their agents, he mentioned.
"Those who got registered during the amnesty period will be able to get regularised even now amid the crackdown," he added.
In a statement on August 29, Malaysian human rights body Tenaganita demanded that the crackdown should not be launched.
Tenaganita Executive Director Irene Fernandez said the Malaysian authorities are deploying a lot of personnel targeting the violators of migrants' rights, while doing virtually nothing to address the issues that lead a migrant to become undocumented or prevent him from gaining legal status.
The authorities had granted permission to 277 outsourcing companies to carry out the core functions of registration and legalisation.
"Tenaganita received hundreds of reports that these government-approved outsourcing companies had created their own 'shell companies' and placed work permits under these companies without providing the workers with actual employment, " Fernandez said.