(1) If the estimated figure of Project I.C. of 500,000 – 700,000 is true, no NGO in Malaysia would have the fund and manpower to deal with these Project I.C. holders.
(2) The full potential risk of these Project I.C. holders to Sabah’s security is now being mitigated by the Govt who screen out these people in the recruitment for military and police forces. However many of these people are now RELA members, that could be the reason why there have been so many cases of abuse of power in Sabah’s RELA. If we legalise these Project I.C., this is like opening the Pandora box!
(3) A huge majority of these people are the Philipine’s Tausug and Bajau, who always claim that Sabah belongs to the Sultan of Sulu (which of course is not by virtue of the Madrid Protocol signed between the British & Spanish in 1885). Due to historical & cultural reasons, these people would prefer to form an alliance or pay their allegiance to the Mindanao’s administration (perhaps the Republic of Mindanao & Sulu), thus, separatist activities in the long run could not be ignored.
Base on the above reasons and many more not said here, i hope we could view the problem of Project I.C. more seriously and with a long term view!

BN government can still do the same if they want but I heard that a lot of these I/C holders went to West Malaysia and can understand why the crime rate are so high over there recently, all thanks to the blue I/C given to them.

Limkamput is right about that, why chasing for high GDP, as long as the country can sustain other things will come along.

The answer must be in the negative if we go by the reply of the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar when winding up the debate on his Ministry this evening” Sdr Kit

Oh, the Home Affairs Minister heard you fine. It is just that it is expedient for him to act the other way. He also said he wants to review the policy on foreign labour when he was first appointed Home Affairs Minister recently. We shall see whether anything is going to happen.

This nation is addicted to foreign workers, we must face the fact. There is no political will to change it because the vested interest groups from the government to those in the private sector are simply too overwhelming for anything meaningful to emerge. If we average Malaysians can’t see our standard of living being gradually dragged down by the indiscriminate entry of foreign workers, we must gullible fools.

Japan, Korea and even Singapore have become developed without massive influx of foreign unskilled and disease carrying workers. There is a simple observation that I want share: Society will slowly gravitate toward what the policy dictates. For example, if we allow indiscriminate entry of foreign unskilled workers, then our society will grow to depend on them. On the other hand, if we are stringent on foreign workers, the society will also evolve and gravitate toward lesser dependence on foreign workers – there will be more automation, mechanisation, working from home, flexi working hours, time off for mothers etc. Right now, as I can see, this country will continue to be inundated by foreign workers to the detriment of our social fabric and well being. The tragedy is those who lobby hard for foreign labour and those who approve the entry of foreign labour will eventually retire to the comfort of some foreign lands leaving the waste land for all of us who have no where else to go.

The questions now are what can be done to remedy the situation? Can we just take back the IC given? Can we just deny the rights of those whom already settled here and gave birth, born here? Or do we want to send them back to Philippines or Indonesia? What about their spouse if they already married to locals? Shall we deport them as well? Those already mixed with locals?

Well if we do that we are being biased since our fore fathers also came to Malaysia for prosper, better future and opportunity. They maybe few generations late but when they accept the IC given, their fate already sealed knowing that Malaysia is their new home.

In this case :
1. NGOs body can play apart in getting those identified, malaysianized them, train them, install the patriotism etc if necessary. Get accurate statistic on these identified new Malaysian.
2. Prosecute those involved without any favor. No reason can be justify giving freely our nationality identity.
3. Sabahan also need to accept that these are the mistakes of the BN gomen, and accept them gradually. A common solution need to be discussed between Sabahan representatives and PR so that the locals will not been taken a ride.
4. Tighten the borders shall be one the step taken, there are still influx of foreigners in Sabah and Sarawak

At the end of the day, as the waiting government in line, PR must show that we are helpful and open our arms to them. Although they get the IC illegal, neverthenless they already accepted the notion that they ahve selected Malaysia as their new home. They are the product of a grave sin of the BN gomen but when PR in power, we must start a new, welcome them with open arms and respect them as citizens of Malaysia. We shall learn the mistake and shall never let these happened again..

These gave credence in showing that PR are the government for the rakyat (no matter how they came to be one or how recently)

p/s : On a lighter notes, they are indeed beautiful people (Malaysian’s Philippines), and I have the luxury of having good friends with them. And I can say they are patriotic and already Malaysianized. Suprisingly they are christians.

Firstly, the common denominator with almost all of these migrants is the religion they profess – Muslim. Reports have it that some Christians economic migrants from southern Philippine have used religion, saying they are Muslims, to ease their passage for project IC or the IMM 13. [And I thought project IC was just a call name until I heard for myself an NRD lady staff directing an applicant to see a senior officer as she suspected the applicant was using a project ic to apply for the bunga raya ic at the Dang Bandang Kota Kinabalu some years ago.] In the spirit of brotherhood, a majority Muslim country like Malaysia has to be seen as caring.

Of greater immensity is the fact these migrants have already evolved into mobile communities all over Sabah, even to those secondary jungles and undeveloped hinterlands. This second factor requires an accurate census.

Less obvious is the fact Sabah being the poorest state in Malaysia is attracting these illegal. Apart from the oil palm plantations common to both Kalimantan and Sarawak, there barely is work in Sabah for her locals much less for these illegal. So why do they come to Sabah, and not to Sarawak or Kalimantan?

And again, there is widely known claims Southern Philippines has for Sabah. In addition, during Pairin times, the security committee for Sabah was in the hands of the Federal department; i.e. Pairin had no say at all on the illegal migrant daily boat loads.

Get ourselves sober. PR has no ready real solutions for Sabah.

The solution lies with a principled Malaysian. It must start with Sabah.

Pairin is one of the appropriate persons to describe the problems associated with these migrants. In describing accurately, one hopes to describe the actual problems. Until then, the fuel that feed such problems cannot be fully understood. And until then, there might not be any evacuation plans, just as Myanmar took the Nagris full frontal

The illegals cannot get IC without recommendations of the politicians, no way. There are estimated 2 millions illegals against 1 million citizens. Is this the problem of today? Don’t Musa Aman knew about this? Don’t you think Pairin is aware?

The issue surfaces because UMNO MPs do not get what they want. That is the reality. Don’t forget these are the same MPs that hopped around before.
Of course the local citizens suffer. Come on lah, KK is not like KL and to see street urchins running here and there is unnerving. They are children of non-citizens. Their parents are the source of many crimes in the state. And if such scenes are welcomed, it is a lie.

But while citizens see the racial mess in KK, don’t the politicians see them too? Many of these issues have nothing to do with KL, much as I don’t like KL administration. The MPs themselves have something to gain from illegals.

As Mr Smith mentioned above, to clean this, only PR administration is the last hope.

instead of “Sabah on Fire in Parliament”, I just personally think that this could be better “sounding”:

“FIRE IN SABAH LAH, PARLIAMENT!” (RUN!) :)

It will take not only the people of Sabah and Sarawak to wake up and realise they must put a stop to this. It also takes the combined will and voice in unison from the Malays in Peninsula Malaysia as well to stop this. And Malays can only do this if they acknowledge and accept deep in their hearts that THEY MUST JUNK UMNO, NOW!

Because of what UMNO have done, they are now facing intense competition from these Muslim, therefore ‘Malay’, foreigners. Just look around and we can see the massive numbers of places and businesses where Malays have been displaced by ‘Malays.’

That is what KETUANAN MELAYU has created! The non-Malays in this country, born of this country, have far less to worry about because by 2050, the invasion and displacment will have been completed to allow all Malays the political might to change the constitution at will. At an estmated mere 20% of the population, the non-Malays will simply be shouted down by 80% of the population.

So, this fight is really a fight that our East Malaysian brethren and our Peninsula Malay brethern have to fight.

Thankfully, we have DSAI, a Malay, who is pushing for KETUANAN RAKYAT, not ketuanan Melayu. By definition therefore, ‘rakyat’ means the citizens of Malaysia, and not a supremicist race, that will determine the policies of this nation for the good of all Malaysians and not foreigners who slip into the country or who are imported into the country to do the bidding of BN and UMNO.

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