Disadvantages of Illegal Immigration in Malaysia
Introduction Illegal immigrants are the people who enter the country with undocumented or in the illegal ways. Legal foreign workers also can become illegal immigrants as their visa expired due to overstay in the destination country. Those illegal immigrants are not just a few. As of April 2012, the Malaysian government is said to have recorded 3.1 million foreign workers in the country, of which two-thirds are illegal foreigners (The New Straits Times, 12 April 2012) Hence, the presences of that huge amount of illegal immigrants had made some impact on our country economic condition. There have 2 sides to investigate about what illegal immigrants actually bring to our country, whether benefits or cost. This part of study will discuss about cost of having illegal immigrants from the economic aspect.
Data It is important to state all the statistical data and the definition are referenced from the others sources as the purposes of statistical prove regarding to this study. Sources of data have been taken from Department of Statistics, Malaysia, journal, article and newspaper which content reliable data given by Ministry of Home Affair such as Borneo Post Online, Utusan Malaysia, The New Straits Times, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and more.
Main Point
The existence of illegal immigrants had cost a lot to our country economic as it slowly becomes one of the burdens to the government. There are evidences shows that existences of huge amount of illegal immigrants have slowly cost a lot of to our country economy.
The reason of illegal immigrants as the burden to our government is because the government needs to spend extra amount of money which are not necessary to be spent to handle the cost to detent illegal immigrant. Government need to provide food and health care to those illegal immigrants in the detention centre. According to the estimates released earlier in the month of 2014 by the home ministry, daily food and administrative costs for
Data It is important to state all the statistical data and the definition are referenced from the others sources as the purposes of statistical prove regarding to this study. Sources of data have been taken from Department of Statistics, Malaysia, journal, article and newspaper which content reliable data given by Ministry of Home Affair such as Borneo Post Online, Utusan Malaysia, The New Straits Times, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and more.
Main Point
The existence of illegal immigrants had cost a lot to our country economic as it slowly becomes one of the burdens to the government. There are evidences shows that existences of huge amount of illegal immigrants have slowly cost a lot of to our country economy.
The reason of illegal immigrants as the burden to our government is because the government needs to spend extra amount of money which are not necessary to be spent to handle the cost to detent illegal immigrant. Government need to provide food and health care to those illegal immigrants in the detention centre. According to the estimates released earlier in the month of 2014 by the home ministry, daily food and administrative costs for
References: 1) The New Straits Times, 12 April 2012, 3.1 million foreign workers in the country, of which two-thirds are illegal foreigners. Available at: http://www2.nst.com.my/nation/general/time-to-weed-out-the-illegals-1.73181/facebook-comments-7.87416 2) Sabah population, Available at: http://www.statistics.gov.my/portal/download_Population/files/population/05Jadual_Mukim_negeri/Mukim_Sabah.pdf 3) THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 21 Jan 2014 , Daily food and administrative costs for housing http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2014/01/21/malaysia-gets-tough-on-illegal-immigrants-as-amnesty-program-expires/ 4) Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants in Sabah, 24 Feb 2013, RM 604 million spent to manage the foreign prisoners in Sabah’s four prisons in between the year of 2006 till Oct 2012 Available at: http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/02/24/rm600-mln-spent-on-non-malaysian-prisoners/