Too many foreigners staying in Malaysia

While it is good to see that the authorities are diligently enforcing the 6P programme, Foreigners fling chairs at Immigration officers during raid, it is nevertheless showing that we are just 'attacking' the symptoms of the 'disease' and not the cause.

I had expressed my fears several times already in your paper, Concern over littering by foreign workers , foreign workers staying in slums, paying the price for cheap foreign labour, Malaysia a haven for illegal workers, and sex ring bust only addressing the symptoms among many others, that unless the Government seriously address the issue of our increasing dependence on cheap and often illegal foreign labour, we are just introducing our country to all the negative and undesirable consequences of unrestrained and sub standard labour. As the number of foreign workers with limited skills and no experience increase and converge inside our country, they inevitably form cliques, recklessly occupying previously peaceful residential areas, and exerting their influences forcefully and abusively, as can be seen by your report of foreigners fighting to evade arrest and eviction. We know now there are numerous enclaves in KL and all over the countryside, where suddenly a foreign (non citizen) group has become a majority in the area, depriving the locals of living space, clean water and houses, and even business opportunities.

While culturally, it may offer Malaysia an excellent opportunity to claim that it's "Truly Asia", the social and environmental effects of such a large number (and still multiplying) of very low skilled foreigners ferried into our country and muscling our denizens out of their living space and work opportunities can only be deleterious in the long term.

And with Malaysia insisting on paying 'slave like' wages to those who clamour to work here, we cannot deny that we are just a part of the larger human trafficking system that is exploiting the poor and the down trodden of the world.

Think about it..