NO ONE can tell for sure how many migrant workers there are in this country. Even the authorities and individual officials offer their own numbers, not so much because they have something to hide from the public but simply because no one knows exactly how many.
According to the Human Resources Ministry, there are some 2.1 million registered migrant workers – legal foreign workers – in Malaysia. However, the number of overstaying illegal foreigners is even larger, around three million.
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