UNDOCUMENTED migrant workers make up more than two-thirds of the migrant workforce in Malaysia and their numbers seem to be growing steadily. The government has always acknowledged a legal migrant workforce of about two million. The number of undocumented workers, meanwhile, is now thought to be a staggering five million!
Paradoxically, though they are considered illegal and regularly hunted by Immigration officials, they are the mainstay of our SMEs, farms and construction industry.
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