Tough job: A worker picking tea leaves at a plantation in Cameron Highlands.
CAMERON HIGHLANDS: The offer of attractive wages is one of the main reasons illegal immigrants flock to Cameron Highlands.
Ringlet district headman Shamzan Idris said the monthly income of between RM1,000 and RM2,000 was a lure to illegal immigrants as there was a shortage of local workers in the labour-intensive vegetable and flower farms.
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