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Up to 50,000 Ethiopians have been deported from Saudi Arabia in the past three weeks as part of a crackdown on illegal workers, The reason not to be subject to their illegal workers.

Thousands of Egyptians, Indonesians, Malaysians and others have also been flown out of the country as the Saudi government seeks to create jobs for local people by deporting some of the estimated nine million foreign workers.

An amnesty for people working in the country without proper permits expired on November 4 and, since then, planes have been taking off around the clock to get the workers to their home countries.

The crackdown has involved tens of thousands of people being rounded up and has led to disturbances in which three Ethiopians have been killed. Almost one million illegal workers had left voluntarily over the past few months.

Saudi Arabia may be one of the richest countries in the world but it has an unemployment rate of 12.5% in a population of 27 million.

The Government not only wishes to get more locals into the workforce, it also wants to diversify the economy.

Foreign workers displays his passport as he waits outside a labour office in Riyadh
Foreign workers displays his passport as he waits outside a labour office in Riyadh

Interior minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef is overseeing the operation and says the campaign has “so far led to the deportation of more than 60,000 violators of the residency and labour system, while procedures are on-going to deport others”.

The Government chartered 70 planes just to deport Ethiopians, who are thought to constitute the biggest group of people leaving.

The foreign ministry in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, said it expected the final total, once the airlift had finished, to be 80,000.

Foreign minister Tedros Adhanom said the government was in “around the clock crisis management” to help get its citizens home.

A majority of them are thought to be women who were employed as domestic workers.

Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Africa after Nigeria, and also one of the poorest. This leads large numbers of its 91 million citizens to leave to try to find work abroad, many in the Middle East.

There are consistent and numerous reports alleging the ill treatment of foreign workers in Saudi Arabia, especially those from developing countries.

In many cases, people’s passports are taken from them when they begin a job.

This has exacerbated the problem of illegal working, as employees sometimes simply keep the worker on, but do not bother to return their passport, or fill in the correct paperwork.

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  1. The article and especially the title are misleading in every sense of the word. To begin with, the Goverment of Saudi Arabia has given all illegal aliens many months to become legal alliens. This was a choice made by the ministry to alow those illegal aliens an opportunity to remain in Saudi Arabia not only legally but also appropriately employed. Throughout the process that span over a period of more than 6 months, the Saudi Government gave all foreign workers that same opportunity without any bias. Many thousands did take the opportunity to remain in Saudi Arabia, others chose to leave and some, not only the thousands of Ethiopians have ignored the opportunity to legalize they stay in Saudi Arabia. Equally important and true, the vast majority of foreign workers are still in Saudi Arabia, contributing to its economic growth and prospering. Why would these millions of foreign workers would choose to remain in Saudi Arabia if they were being treated as slave? In conclusion, Saudi Arabia is among the very few countries around the world that has offered work many opportunities to both rich and poor countries. It is also among the very few countries around the world that has given illegal aliens a fair opportunity and reasonable time to remain in the country legally if they can find a job and a sponsor.

  2. While Saudi maintaince the right to deport illigal foriegn workers from its territory, it has no single entitlement to Harass and Mistreat these people just because they happen to be illegal. Video leaks have been flooding the internet showing a savagery of saudi policemen and its youth group Harassing, killing and raping poor migrant workers. One can cite number of verses in their Qur’an where their profit ordered its followers to seek refuge in Ethiopia. This is what we got instead
    SHAME ON SAUDI!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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