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>Deputy Home Minister Megat Junid Megat Ayob said today that foreign
>workers who marry Malaysian women will be kicked out of the country.
>Their Malaysian wives will be kicked out with them "even if they're
>orang asli".

I don't know about you, but this guy sounds to me like he's got no
feelings at all and is trying to play God.

It's one thing to say we want to prevent people from pretending to
marry so as to stay in Malaysia. The US for example, has a "test
period" or 2 years before allowing someone to be granted a
marriage-based citizenship.

But this guy is saying, two people who genuinely fall in love must not
be allowed to marry just because one has the misfortune to not have
been born in Malaysia???

And that stuff about blaming the increase of baby abandonment on
foreigners: first of all, how can you be so sure? isn't it a
consequence of increasing urbanization and the disruption of
traditional morality we've seen in other countries? Secondly, even if
it were true, what does this have to do with people who truly want to
get married? These are precisely the kind of people who would form a
stable family and bring up their kids to be good citizens, not the
child-abandoners!
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Ian Chai <chai@uiuc.edu>                 http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/chai