Welcome immigrants, not.

A couple of days back, the Home Minister decided to sign a permit, allowing 70,000 Bangladeshi workers to step into our country for employment. Fortunately, with many parties disagreeing to this, he retracted the permit.

With the RM 60 billion stimulus package, a large sum would go to the construction industry, as Malaysia is a developing country. So there would be an outflow of the money to the Bangladeshi workers, if they are permitted to be employed here, into their pockets and to their country.

And yes, more social problems. Crime rates would soar high. Theft and rape cases to high record levels. Many would say that it is not only the Bangladeshis that go around raping women. Our locals do contribute to the social problems too. But hello, would you want to add to the numbers and statistics yet by allowing more immigrants to be employed?

Our country is starting to feel the pinch of recession. Unemployment rates are rising. And yet, we are allowing the job opportunities to be obtained by our neighbours. However, this problem can't be rectified as we rely heavily on foreign workers in construction jobs and such. Why can't we be like countries like US and UK, where the locals are employed to work at construction sites?

But the Bangladeshi workers are humans too. Its not fair for them as they have paid the sum of money for the paper works for their employment in Malaysia and not being able to claim the refunds of it. Some of them might have been saving for a long time just to pay the employment fee. Struggling to make ends meet, hoping to get a job in Malaysia to feed their family back at home. And yes, lets be fair. Not all of them would contribute to social problems.
Employers of Bangladeshi workers state that they are hardworking and most importantly, are employed at a low cost.