Turning Illegal into Legal, Over my dead body!

I do not see how the granting of Permanent Resident status to long-time illegal immigrants in Sabah would be a solution to Sabah problems. I want to see no more of illegal immigrants in Sabah and turning them into Sabahan doesn’t mean there are no more illegal immigrants. Bloody hell, this stupid politician thinks this is a magic show? Turning illegal immigrants into a Sabahans?

The Philippine Government need to set up a consulate in Sabah to send their own rubbish back, I don’t want to see another cent of Malaysia Tax money being use as free holiday tickets to Philippines and Indonesia. Before they know, Najib who is taking charge of this illegal immigrant issue in Sabah might use C4 to blow up all those Illegals rather than sending them back.

C4 is a viable choice since Oil prices has gone up so much. Sending all these illegal immigrants’ ashes back is cheaper than a live insect!

We must put law and order in my beloved land, foreigners must have a valid document if they want to come and work in this country. There are many cases where foreigner commit crime and ran away making Sabah a hazardous place to live in.

The Government's proposed Federal Cabinet Committee on Illegal Immigrants should handle the various categories of illegal immigrants and refugees separately. The problem must be dealt with rationally and not emotionally lest certain important details be overlooked.

While I concur with their stand generally, we must also understand that the illegal immigrant problem in Sabah is a complex issue now. We are not talking about PTI (illegal immigrant) per se but so many categories of illegal immigrants including those who are in possession of Malaysian ICs or MyKads through Project IC as well as through other illegal means.

there were at least three categories of illegals - those who came without proper documents (PTI1); those who came legally but overstayed (PTI 2); PTI1 and PTI 2 who were legalised through the Project IC through the back door (PTI 3); children of PTI 1, 2 and 3 (PTI 4) in addition to the so-called refugees.

sources had put the total number of non-locals in Sabah now at between 1.5 and 2 million and that some people put the estimate as 1.7 million i.e. 600,000 under Project IC working legally and about 500,000 without proper documents.

These are mostly Filipinos. What about Indonesians and other nationals including those from Pakistan and Myanmar?

So, when Najib speaks about flushing out illegals, which category is being targeted by the Government? Similarly when we talk about giving PR status to foreigners, which category of foreigners do we mean?

Equal priority should be given to flushing out PTI (1, 2 and 3) under the proposed exercise and deal with PTI 4 and refugees plus dependents separately.

Once the flushing out exercise has been completed, we can reconsider any application for PR or work passes of PTI 1, PTI 2 and PTI 3 on a case to case basis.

The idea was to flush out illegals and then regulate with enforcement and regulation of foreign labour to be carried out as an ongoing, regular routine exercise.

To succeed in the long term, managing of foreign labour and immigration, cooperation of all parties, including the Government where the immigrants come from is necessary.

The illegal immigrant problem and those related to it are the failure of the Government in managing our borders and enforcing the laws of the country.