What is the strategy against illegal immigrants?
DAP National Deputy Chairman and MP for Kepong Dr Tan Seng Giaw reiterates that the Government nust have an effective strategy to tackle the complicated problem of illegal immigrants.
The Government should also have detailed studies of the complications and consequences of the influx of immigrants, including the socio-economic effects.
On 19.1.2008, the Secretary General at the Home Ministry Datuk Azahar announced the plan to reduce the number of legal immigrant workers by 200,000 next year and at least 500,000 by 2015. Dr Tan comments on it.
We have heard Datuk Azahar's intention to do something for citizens of Malaysia. His ministry's plan includes sending legal immigrants home, priority to deal with construction, manufacturing and plantation industries and allowing a family with over RM 5,000 income a month to employ maid. We hope the plan will succeed.
Human resources or labour depends on supply and demand. Those sectors that are facing labour shortage turns to immigrants. The coordination between Home Ministry and Human Resources Ministry must be improved; they must try to help those sectors facing labour shortage. Azahar says that his ministry has become more effective; the public can see for themselves whether this statement reflects the truth.
In the parliamentary session at the end of last year, we raised the issue of legal and illegal immigrants again, especially the socio-ecopnomic consequences, such as health, education, crime, extremist activities and so forth. The Home Ministry dithers on some of the questions.
The official figure for legal immigrants is 2,02 million. The number of illegal immigrants is unknown. Numbers such as 400 thousands, 1 million, 1.5 million were mentioned. As Malaysian shoreline is very long, they can enter the country at over 700 entry points every night. Has the law enforcers the capacity to deal with these illegals? Some suspect that certain individuals in enforcement agencies are corrupt. They keep their eyes shut on the entry of these illegals.
We shall continue to press the Government to have effective strategy for legals and illegals and to create effective mechanism for law enforcement.
Dr Tan Seng Giaw
posted by Tan Seng Giaw @ 1/20/2008 03:06:00 PM
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Voon Lee Shan is morally corrupt!
One of the few remaining mission schools in Sarawak, St Martin primary school in Muara Tuang, will likely shut down for good. Last November, it was sent an eviction notice from the five-hectare plot of land it occupies.
State Education Director Dr Julaihi Bujang said the 313 pupils in the largely Iban village have been transferred to Sekolah Kebangsaan Muara Tuang, SK Barangan and few other schools in the nearby the Semarahan district.
The trouble started last April, when the landowner Millah Kitat, through her legal counsel Voon Lee Shan, issued a letter giving the Anglican mission that runs the school an ultimatum: Buy the whole 12ha parcel of land on which the school stands or move out within a week.
Millah owns the land under Native Customary Rights (NCR).
When the school failed to move out within the deadline Voon, the DAP state assemblyman for Batu Lintang, served another legal letter demanding RM700,000 compensation within a week, claiming the school had trespassed on Millah's land.
To avoid further legal complications, the state Education Department ordered the school shut.
"The previous land owner Lian Teetat Emparu had divided the land for the Anglican mission to build the school but it was not legalised,” said Julaihi.
"There were some agreements drawn up by the late Emparu. The ‘agreement’ stated that the land would be ‘free of charge’, and the heir or heirs would not develop that portion of land alienated for the school," he said.
Since the agreement was not legalised, it became a point of dispute with Millah, Emparu's daughter, who inherited the land when he died.
"The legal summons issued to us is still on going. The landowner and her legal counsel did not give us much time to negotiate, and there is no way the education department of the mission can come up with the RM700,000 within seven days of the issuance of the letter, dated October 23, 3007," Julaihi said.
The state Education Department, meanwhile, has identified a piece of land near the old school and they have proposed to purchase it.
Julaihi said they are still waiting for the Education Ministry's approval, and this will take some time.
"It will take some time to pay the compensation demanded by the landowner, and it will definitely take more time to purchase land and build a school," he said.
Another fact which most West Malaysian may not know is the Sabah voters’ list (especially in the rural areas) is inflated with thousand of voters who a few years back were non-Malaysians. And this is done with the tacit help/encouragement of the federal (UMNO) government.
It is still not too late to ask the government to set up a Royal Commission to get to the root of the issue. Arrest and deport those who obtained their Malaysian citizenship illegally. Most of these people has also became instant Bumiputras overnight.
Don’t say this is not your problem. Look at the number of seats (24) delivered by Sabah to BN in the parliament.
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