Businesses want foreign worker hiring freeze lifted

Big roundup: Some 132 illegal immigrants sitting on the ground after being arrested during an Immigration Department operation at a palm oil plantation in Setia Alam in Shah Alam, Selangor. — Bernama

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia should consider lifting the freeze on the hiring of foreign workers quota in view of the Migrant Repatriation Programme that starts on March 1, say trade groups.

They, however, were receptive of the repatriation programme, which the Home Ministry previously said was meant to send home undocumented foreigners without them being prosecuted.