Immigration to get tough on bosses who hire undocumented workers, says D-G

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Employers who hire undocumented migrants are firmly in the crosshairs of the Immigration Department.  During a press conference on Monday (Aug 19), Immigration Director-General Datuk Ruslin Jusoh disclosed that the department had arrested 29,030 undocumented migrants and 900 employers between January 1 and last Friday.   He further stated that the department will intensify its focus on errant employers, with plans to bring them to court.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/DJY6m  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Can you share with us how many parties and offices you have since January until now?

00:09Okay, this is also important. Thank you, our colleagues.

00:13I want to clarify here.

00:16In the ongoing operations that we are doing, we are also doing other operations related to the foreigners.

00:22If you look at our records, from January 1st to August 16th,

00:27we have carried out 11,903 operations.

00:3111,903 operations in the period from January 1st to mid-August.

00:38On average, we do about 1,700-1,800 operations per month.

00:42That's the number of operations.

00:44Secondly, we have carried out 106,432 operations so far.

00:49All 100,000 operations have been carried out.

00:51And from those inspections, plus related operations, we have detained a total of 29,030 people.

01:02They are responsible for immigration, passport and other regulations related to those documents.

01:09And more importantly, we have also arrested a total of 900 employers.

01:16This is important. The majority of these employers are Malaysians.

01:21What is their fault? Paying for the parties.

01:24A Malaysian cannot, or the employers cannot, pay for the parties.

01:29For example, if they work in Tom Yum, restaurants, outlets, cleaning and so on,

01:36they need to get the right workers who are registered with the Immigration Department.

01:41But they take the parties.

01:44Those who don't have documents, or those who overstay, or those who come here to work,

01:52they pay for them. That is a mistake.

01:54A mistake to pay for the parties, to protect the parties, to pay for the parties,

01:59is a mistake under Section 55 and also Section 56 of the Immigration Act.

02:04So we have arrested as many as 900 people.

02:07We take action.

02:09And for your information, from now until the future,

02:16our main focus is to make sure that the employers pay for the parties.

02:24That is our focus.

02:26Now we see outside there, there are many parties.

02:32Who contributes to the many parties working?

02:35It is our people, our employers.

02:37If the employers don't take the parties to work, then we don't see them in the restaurants.

02:41I receive a lot of complaints.

02:43Why are there many foreigners working in the restaurants?

02:46When we do the operation, it turns out that they don't have documents.

02:49So the employers need to take responsibility.

02:52We will charge the employers.

02:54We will charge them.

02:56It becomes their fault.

02:58So when the employers don't take the foreign workers who don't have documents,

03:03then we can reduce it.

03:05We can reduce it.

03:06So we take firm action in this matter.

03:08Employers, I remind you outside, don't pay for the parties.

03:12Don't pay for the parties.

03:14Whoever comes, they need to follow the correct process.

03:17This is a big mistake in the Immigration Act.

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