Illegal immigrants are not a new thing in Malaysia. This problem
started as Malaysia kick start their development in building industries, which happened
to be the major causes of the problem as most of these illegal immigrant happened
to work as work force to build building such as houses, office storey and many
more. Even though they ‘help’ indirectly in the development of Malaysia, they
actually bring a lot of problem to our citizen.
Firstly, they are
known for the social or moral problem. Most of them choose to work here because
they did not have the education needed to succeed in their country. They were
also did not have the knowledge about our culture in here. So, they bring their
own culture in our country, which most of it are against our social norms and
causes social problem to happen. Thus, giving a bad example to our children
that might actually follow what these immigrant.
As for the economy, our currency value might drop because of
the flow out of our money to other country. As for example, every time they
wanted to send money to their hometown, they will change the currency first. This
causes our currency to drop in term of its value hence messing our economic
scenario.
But, the real problem with this illegal immigrant situation
is when they commit crime in our country, because they did not come in this
country through legal channel, our authorities did not have their record. This can
be a big problem if the authorities want to detect the suspect if a crime
involved the illegal immigrant.
Illegal immigrant is a problem that should be controlled. We
cannot simply ask them to go back to their country as we did not have enough workforces,
especially in building and manufacturing industries. The best way to overcome
this problem is to register every immigrant that come to work in this country. It
is a slow process, but it might help in term of our citizen security and
comfort living in our own country. Every people that is involve with immigrant
should take responsibility, in order to create a better Malaysian for the
citizen.
