Who should responsible for this ridiculous case? keep in mind that all of the bangladeshi arrived with valid documents, has home affair ministry accessed the recruitment agents before approve their application? find out the agents should responsible for this and shouldn't our home affair ministry apologize?
One big Bangladeshi mystery
By V.P. SUJATA
PUTRAJAYA: The Immigration Department is baffled as to how so many Bangladeshis have arrived in the country with valid work permits – but without jobs or employers waiting for them.
Most have been sent to the nearest immigration depot and are awaiting deportation.
The department believes a syndicate is bringing them into the country using legal documents.
It was responding to a recent case in which 2,000 Bangladeshis had to sleep on the floor of the KL International Airport car park because their agents or employees failed to collect them.
Non-governmental organisation Tenaganita said it was sheltering 3,000 Bangladeshis who had entered the country legally but were not given jobs, bringing the total of those in such a predicament to 5,000.
While the syndicate makes thousands of ringgit, the losers are the Bangladeshis and the Malaysian Government, which has to feed, house and deport them.
Immigration Department enforcement director Datuk Ishak Mohamed said until the newly gazetted Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act was actually implemented, action could not be taken against rogue agents.
Under the Act, anyone who traffics an adult for the purpose of exploitation can be jailed not more than 15 years and fined.
And those profiting from the exploitation of a trafficked person can be jailed not more than 15 years and fined between RM50,000 and RM500,000.
A date for the implementation of the Act has yet to be set.
The recent case of the 2,000 Bangladeshis is part of the problem created by rogue agencies.
Curiously, all those coming in without employers are Bangladeshis.
Ishak said that if it was the Bangladeshis’ plan to enter the country with legal permits and then look for jobs, it had backfired because they could go no further than the immigration depot.
A KLIA immigration spokesman said the car park where the foreigners were stationed was unused and was now being renovated to become the main counter for foreign workers entering the country.
About 800 to 1,000 people could be accommodated at this area at one time, he said, although the number of workers likely to arrive daily could not be estimated accurately.
Over the past month, about 2,000 arrived daily, he added.
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/9/23/nation/18972319&sec=nation
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