MALAYSIA is like a magnet to illegal immigrants from Indonesia, Bangladesh, the Philippines and other countries. It’s their land of milk and honey compared to the unemployment and impoverishment back home.
According to some estimates, there are 1.2 million foreign workers in Malaysia and that at least 400,000 of them, mostly Indonesians, are illegal and have yet to return home despite the end of the amnesty period.
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