IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT – A BLUNDER

The Malaysian Insider, October 5, 2011 reported that the Home Ministry found its officers (Immigration Officers) exercised their responsibilities in a 'good and orderly fashion' in the recent nude squat incident involving two Singaporean women found to have entered the country illegally. It was further reported that the Immigration Officers who were women, followed standard procedures when carrying out the investigation on the two Singaporean women.

Well, here again another blunder by a Malaysian authority. I wish to ask if it is the Immigration Department’s SOP to force all women that enters the country illegally to squat in the nude. Please show me what is written in the SOP. If the SOP does have that clause, I would recommend that the SOP be thrown into the sea, because such clause is not only humiliating and barbaric but worse still, it reflects the disgusting state of mind of our Home Ministry and the Immigration Department in particular. I don’t believe any so-called civilized nation would have an immigration SOP of that kind. Maybe, we are different or want to be different for all the wrong reason.

I do not think the two women intended to enter the country illegally. They had entered through a legal immigration entry point, but found that there were no Immigration Officials manning the entry point at the time. Now who do you blame in this particular instant. Where were the immigration officers at the time, and is it in the immigration SOP that the entry point can be left unattended at any time, or was there a stipulated opening/closing timing at the entry point. If at all the two women wanted to enter the country illegally, they wouldn’t have bothered to go through a legal entry point. And don’t we know that thousands of illegals enter the country every day. I now tend to believe that it is during such times when the entry points are not manned that illegals are free to enter the country.

You can now see how convenient it is for people to enter the country illegally with the courtesy and generosity of the Immigration Department. They might as well place a large banner at the entry point that says ‘ILLEGALS ARE WELCOMED INTO MALAYSIA WHEN THERE ARE NO IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS MANNING THE ENTRY POINTS’. This would make the work of the authorities easier since they don’t have to make illegal squat in the nude during an investigation.

I do not know whether our authorities’ i.e. Home Ministry or the Department of Immigration has apologized to the Singapore authorities over the incident, and if they haven’t, this is where the Malaysian authorities can now show their humility and regret to the Singapore authorities by saying “We are deeply sorry for the incident and the humiliation suffered by the two women”. I think this is the most ‘civilized’ thing to do for a country that aspires to be the ‘best democracy in the world’.


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A GOVERNMENT’S SANCTIONED INVASION OF ILLEGALS

Over the last few days Kuala Lumpur and Putra Jaya witnessed an exodus of illegal immigrants wanting to have their status declared ‘legal’ with the courtesy of Najib’s administration. This is what I term as a government sanctioned invasion of illegal immigrant, and after having had their fingers printed and recorded in the so called state of the art biometric recorder, they are then declared legal immigrants. How convenient and how efficient are the authorities at selling out this country to the illegals. This is disgusting indeed and the Malaysia Boleh slogan has been stretched a bit too much. Never have I heard of any country in this world that welcomes illegal immigrants so tactfully, with kind generosity and with so much publicity accorded. We even had the smiling Home Minister mingling among the illegals earlier on, maybe to see whether the illegals are fully fed or otherwise.

I do not know what has become of the Home Minister. The Defence Ministry had spent so much money and resources, deploying men and equipment to monitor and to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country. Likewise, the Immigration authorities, Maritime Enforcement Agency, police and even Rela partakes in the enforcement and prevention of illegal immigrant. But here, the Home Minister, rather than take drastic measures to expel these illegal immigrants, conveniently issues out an invitation to legalize all illegal immigrants.

With thousands of illegal immigrants made legal, the country no longer needs to defend itself against a possible invasion, because the ‘invaders’ in the form of legalized immigrants are safely on our shores. We do not know who and what they are; murderers, rapist, drug addicts, thieves and what have you. So they are now free to roam the country, do what the like, marry locals if they wish and have as many children as they can, that would later become citizens of this country. How easy it is to be a citizen of this country with the kind generosity and courtesy of our government.

It took years of hard work by the security forces to ensure the peace that all Malaysians enjoy today. Many have lost their lives in the process and are forgotten. For those who are alive today; some are without their limbs and some even without their vision, and do we really care for them? Yes, we do care for them i.e. once a year during Warriors Day with a gift of hamper.

With such ease in granting legal status to all illegal immigrants, I wonder what will become of this country and the future of its people. I am not at all surprise that some of them will in all probability be granted voting rights to vote in the upcoming GE. With Malaysia Boleh, I think everything is possible. Don’t you believe so?

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