Have you heard of human trafficking lately? It may not always be in the news but this is a serious problem in almost all countries in the world.
Polaris Project defines human trafficking as “the business of stealing freedom for profit. In some cases, traffickers trick, defraud or physically force victims into providing commercial sex. In others, victims are lied to, assaulted, threatened or manipulated into working under inhumane, illegal or otherwise unacceptable conditions.”
We may not be aware but human trafficking is happening everyday around us. When you force someone for labor and he or she is unpaid or underpaid, that is already a form of human trafficking. This is an illegal business and whether we like it or not, this problem persists anywhere in the world.
Most often, the victims of human trafficking do not know that they are involved in the crime because they are promised with a good job with good pay and when you are desperate to have a job, you would fall into this trap.
Recently, there are about 525 Filipino illegal immigrants in Malaysia and they were deported back to the Philippines on April 30 this year.
Among those 525, 403 were men while 102 were women and there were 20 children as well. They were deported back to Zamboanga through a ferry. According to reports, they were illegally transported to Malaysia for employment.
Sitti Saleha Habib of the National Security Council director for Sabah said that they also deported 158 detained Indonesians last May 2 through Tawau.
“This is part of the ongoing efforts to rid the state of illegal immigrants and to deter the illegal entry of immigrants,” Sitti Saleha added in a statement.
The deportation of illegal immigrants is Malaysia’s way of combating illegal trafficking. While they welcome foreign workers, they promote just recruitment and fair wages. According to a report, Malaysia has already deported a total of 4,115 illegal immigrants this year. – LMI
Source: Expatreaders
Be the first to comment