Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has arrested Pakistani dozens more, including 195 illegal immigrants, according to the Saudi Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Labor; nearly 100 arrests have been made against foreigners living illegally in the city of Jeddah during operation.
Police Chief Maj. Gen. Abdullah said that to examine the illegal immigrants and for arrest their shops, companies and factories can be inspected. Dozens of Pakistanis included in the detention in Riyadh and there have been arrests in other cities of Saudi Arabia also.
Saudi Government and Jeddah administration take action against illegal migrant people and arrest the 195 Pakistani people. Hundreds of thousands of workers have already left the kingdom following a grace period of seven months during which authorities told expatriates that if they did not fix their legal status they had to leave the country or face jail.
Many illegal immigrants have now lived in Saudi Arabia for decades, having children and grandchildren who now live without nationality or residence papers, and prompting government officials to speak of a “humanitarian crisis”.
Saudi Arabia’s hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are not counted among the millions of expatriates who reside legally in the Arab kingdom, working as everything from maids to finance executives. Instead they live on the margins, ineligible for government services and outside of the law, but often unofficially tolerated because of the expense and administrative problems in the way of ejecting them.