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387 Bangladeshis held in KL so far

Govt moves to bring illegal workers back

Staff Correspondent
Thousands of Bangladeshis will face deportation from Malaysia as the country started a crackdown early Sunday targeting five lakh irregular foreigners staying there.
Malaysian police had already arrested 387 Bangladeshis in the first 24 hours till early Monday, Malaysian English daily The Star reported yesterday.
Other nationals arrested include 717 from Indonesia, 555 from Myanmar, and 229 from Nepal, the daily reported.
Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday told the reporters that the government would bring back the Bangladeshis detained in the ongoing crackdown.
"Some illegal Bangladeshi people were not legalised due to their own failures. Our high commission asked them to renew their passports, but they ignored the call," he said while some reporters met him at his ministry office in the capital.
Terming the current situation of the country disgraceful, the minister alleged that the agencies that sent those illegal workers were responsible for the workers' sufferings. "We will request the Malaysian government to ease the process for the deportation of our people so that they do not face any imprisonment or fine", Khander Mosharraf mentioned.
The first phase of the crackdown will close by the end of this year. It is part of an amnesty programme that started in 2011, allowing the irregular migrants to get legalised or return home without facing any penalty.
Some 2,70,000 out of around five lakh Bangladeshis staying in Malaysia had registered under the amnesty, but around two lakh had completed the procedure, AKM Atiqur Rahman, Bangladesh high commissioner to Malaysia, told The Daily Star over the phone yesterday.
Of the remaining 70,000, some 25,000 had returned home taking advantage of the amnesty, he said, adding that some 45,000 could not get their work permits issued by the Malaysian immigration due to fraudulent practices by the agents and brokers.
"We have requested the Malaysian government to legalise those having proofs of their registration. Malaysia's home minister gave a positive nod in this regard," the high commissioner said.
He said the embassy could not do anything for those who did not register themselves under the amnesty, or entered Malaysia with tourist visas and overstayed their visas.
The number of such irregular Bangladeshis could not be estimated, he said.
He gave an assurance that the high commission would negotiate with the Malaysian government to do the best for the Bangladeshis.
M Saravana Kumar, deputy director (enforcement) of Malaysian immigration department, said, "The illegal migrants will be deported immediately, while their employers will be fined up to 50,000 Malaysian Ringgit, or be jailed for up to five years, or be given six strokes of the cane, or all the three."
The operation involving around 1,35,000 personnel will charge some 45,000 employers believed to have hired the irregular migrants.
Meanwhile, Shamsuddin Bardan, executive director of the Malaysian Employers' Federation, said it wanted the government to allow easier absorption of foreign workers into other industries that were facing shortage of workers.
"It will be economical for employers as they will be able to fully utilise the foreign workers from other industries instead of hiring new ones," The Star quoted him as saying.
Bangladeshis among 115 migrants arrested in Indonesia
Indonesian police on Sunday arrested 115 undocumented migrants from Bangladesh, Myanmar and several African countries in the province of West Java, reports Jakarta Post.
The number of Bangladeshis could not be known.
Dadang Garnadi, head of criminal investigations unit of police, said human traffickers had kept the migrants at a villa in Tanjung Jaya village of Banjarwangi district.
"It is suspected that they would attempt to reach Australia," said Dadang.