High Time The PH Government Gets Serious About The Number Of Foreign Workers In The Country

It is high time the government gets serious about the number of foreign workers in the country.

Nobody knows for sure how many foreign workers there are in Bolehland. Some say there are at least 4 million of them here illegally. What about those said to be here legally?

Assuming there are another 3 million foreign workers here legally, there are altogether some 7 million of them in Bolehland, which is a frightening number for a country of only 30 million population. There could easily be more than 7 million.

If not checked, the number of foreign workers here legally and illegally could well swell to a few more million in a couple of years which could well overwhelm the country.

As it is now in many neighbourhoods, except the more mewah ones, shops run by these foreigners spring up overnight haphazardly like mushrooms. Not even certain if these shops are all licensed. They are even said to run a wholesale market in the outskirt of the federal capital.

And why are these foreigners here opening up shops and doing business when they are supposed to be working in the factories, the plantations and as construction workers and labourers and the like?

In one neighbourhood, a butcher business is located right on the shop front fivefoot way!  with chunks of meat hanging from hooks, exposed to flies and dust and blood dripping onto the floor and drain. Surely this can't be legal? The sad thing is that the local authorities must have known about it? It has its enforcement personnel going on their rounds everyday issuing parking summons and these people must have noticed the macabre?

While other countries welcome skilled workers and people who have expertise in particular fields or are professionals in their own right, Bolehland go for the low-end unskilled workers.

It is really sad to see that not much is being done about seriously regulating the foreign workers in Bolehland and repatriating those here illegally.

What we have here is the occasional desultory efforts to nap the illegal foreign workers and then everything is forgotten until someone decides again that they are on their jobs.

There just is no coherent policy nor the will to tackle the problem of foreign workers in the country.

The way things go on, Bolehlanders might just wake up one day soon and find that they have become the minority in their own country!

Serves us right, then!