🚀 go-pugleaf

     I am truly appalled by this news. I find it quite unbelievable that
this statement could be made by a fellow Malaysian (let alone a government
minister). It is totally racist, a gross infringement of human and civil
rights, immoral, etc. (I'm sure you can add a few more adjectives to the
list..). It is a sad state of affairs for the politics in our country when
these sort of ludicrous statements (even by Malaysian standards), become
government policy.
     I am sure many of us who subscribe to this discussion group
live/work/study abroad. How would you feel if your host country introduced
similar legislation??! If the government were to introduce legislature to
prevent "false marriages " (ie. marriage with the sole purpose of getting
Malaysian citizenship/residency) as is enforced in the US or most other
European countries, whereby the couple must stay married for a "test
period", that would perhaps be understandable,( reasonable even considering
the fact there are some who abuse the system). But this is clearly "over the
top"!!!

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John Cherukara < nwasem!ch!jc@asemag.attmail.com >

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From: Ian Chai
To: Multiple recipients of list BERITA-D; JC
Subject: MY: Megat Junid will kick out foreign wo
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 1996 3:36PM

>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