The PH government has to get serious about regulating the influx of foreign workers into the country.
No one knows for certain how many foreign workers are here. It is estimated there are some 2 million registered foreign workers in the country and double the number of illegal ones here.
For a country like Bolehland with a population of 30 million people, that is a frighteningly high number.
The previous BN government didn't quite care because it was said that recruitment agencies connected to the ruling elite were making a killing bringing in the workers.
During the 80s and 90s, with a booming economy and lack of workers, unskilled foreign workers were needed in the plantation, the manufacturing and construction sectors.
Today, you can see them almost everywhere.
Shops and eateries are mushrooming indiscriminately in many neighbourhoods operated and run by these foreigners.
There is even a butcher stall on the five-foot way of a row of shop houses in one neighbourhood, with the meat openly exposed to dust and flies and blood dripping onto the foot way and the drain. Surely, this is against the law? But what is the local council doing?
All this belies employers' lament that they need more foreign workers and there are just not enough of them to fill vacancies.
What has happened to the requirement that unskilled foreign workers may only work in designated sectors?
If the unregulated influx of foreign workers is not checked soon, or there just is a lack of serious political will to tackle the issue, for one reason or another, sooner or later the country will be overwhelmed by their numbers with all the attendant problems that that will bring.
It might even lead to the situation where the number of foreigners exceeds the local population!
It will be too late to cry then.
It is past high time the new PH governments gets down to serious work, not be remiss like the previous one that the people eventually rejected.
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