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Saudi Arabia is considering the deportation of five million illegal immigrants, that is, 20 percent of the population. About it reports on Sunday, March 12, RIA Novosti with reference to the newspaper Al Hayat.
According to the Agency, currently the program is being developed for the deportation of the Consultative Council (Majlis ash-Shura). The initiative comes from Deputy, Dr. Fadhel Cage.
The authorities fear that migrants will be required to naturalize them, giving them Saudi citizenship.
The developed program is not the first for Saudi Arabia. So, in 2013, illegal immigrants were given seven months Amnesty during which all wishing could legalize their status or to leave the country voluntarily. About four million people received official work permits, the country left about one million visitors. Then the deportations began. The campaign to evict the migrants was aimed at reducing unemployment among the indigenous population.
People in poor areas of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh often travel to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in search of a better life. There they engaged in low-skilled jobs, mostly as cleaners, nannies, waiters, gardeners and drivers. Moreover, among the migrants, there is a gradation in the level of wages — traditionally immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh it is lower than Indians and Filipinos.