Saudi Arabia's foreign labour crackdown drives out 2m migrants

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Ethiopian workers face hostility amid 'Saudisation' campaign to control foreign labour and get more Saudi citizens into work

Under the watchful eyes of Saudi policemen slouched in their squad cars along a rundown street, little knots of Ethiopian men sit chatting on doorsteps and sprawl on threadbare grass at one of Riyadh's busiest junctions. These are tense, wary times in Manfouha, a few minutes' drive from the capital's glittering towers and swanky shopping malls.

Manfouha is the bleak frontline in Saudi Arabia's campaign to get rid of its illegal foreign workers, control the legal ones and help get more of its own citizens into work. This month two or three Ethiopians were killed here after a raid erupted into full-scale rioting.


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Saudi Arabia's foreign labour crackdown drives out 2m migrants | World news | theguardian.com
 
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taxslave said:
SOmehow I doubt this gets the milage Israel kicking out illegal migrants does.
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You'd be surpirsed.
Of all the Nations in the area Saudi Arabia that is the one that need to 'reform' the most. Quickly followed by the other 'usual suspects' that were 'publicly' funding the attempted overthrow in Syria. It isn't hard to spot them, they are the ones that shoot auarmed protesters dead at the beginning of any group that 'complains' about how they can get shot dead in the streets for wanting the rights that the UN says they are entitled to. Those 5 Nations should be coming to an ICC Courtroom soon, with any luck and hopefully Syria will push it to the max as far as monetary compensation for the refugees created and for the physical tearing down of damaged public facilities and the replacement with 21st century stuff rather than they get what the elite is throwing out.

If their 'Arab Spring' was anything like Canada's the it was between 12:01 PM and 2:59. Iran in 1953 was the 1st 'Arab Spring' and the International Corporations were the ones that thought they had the right to crack the whip over all natural resources at the expense of the locals who lives got worse rather than better, like the 'contract' promised. The Mid East was given Kuwait as the shining example of what the International Corporations would bring as a lifestyle to the whole area and it was really for the 'Overlords' only. (the ones hired by the CIA to ruin Afghanistan in the late 1970's is an example of how 'Overlords' operate, too bad it is a reward from Companies so their lifestyle gets 'easier' when they actually live far, far away.

First you invite somebody to your House (of Saudi) and then you beat them and then say they deserve deportation because you have a new bunch of slaves that will take over their former duties, the homeless and the destitute that live in the inner parts of any city.

I'm thinking the guy getting a beating in the vid should get citizen ship and a big cheque and on the laughable side is a man in a dress is Shirley not going to cause any lasting damage, lol. (in US run Bahrain he would have shot him, like Cheney only deadly)

Saudi Man Beats Servant - English Translate - YouTube

The rating made me come back for this rather than I thought it to be important enough to do it on my own. The clear version shows the beater might have a woodie and the voice over covers up the indication that this was a bit more than drugs (and/or money) were able to mask as far as pain. The part that make the person full on insane is that it was filmed to begin with. Who gave the guy the shiner he already had at the very start of the original vid?

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They don't like black Muzzies?
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East Indian are not Islamic, make it falsely a race issue when it is religion based. Are the House of Saudi now going to become trail breakers? No, a shining example of what not to do according to the documents that came into being because of the horrors of modern warfare would be closer to the truth. My moral judjment is based on the verse below as far as who should be taken care of first when natural resources money cover the whole cost involved..
 
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So what will the Saudi's do if they have to do their own work? I'm reminded of the Kuwaiti's, couldn't even fight their own war when Saddam invaded them. The young men beetled off to Egypt to party while Americans fought for their freedom. The Saudi's are no different. There are probably more immigrants doing their work than there are Saudi's.
 
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Saudi Arabia is the most repressive regime there is they are also the ones who really
finance the killing in other states to suit their own ends. The frontline picture is that of
a modern nation struggling to enter a brave new world. In fact they are really rich
sophisticated savages who have no regard for anyone but themselves. Their biggest
problem is the Americans and others might find different markets to purchase oil or
become self sufficient. If that were to happen there would be no need to pander to the
thugs of the region. The only enemy they have is Iran. Arabs against Persians and
that could be a massive conflict in the future. No they don't like black Muslims either.
The Middle East is a strange place built of contradictions.
 
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Unlike the usual suspects here I've actually met a Saudi-all kinds of them in fact including a number of family groups-in the course of my work.

The truth is that they're like anyone else some good some not so good and politics doesn't interest the average man much.

The article as linked makes a Big Deal about Ethiopians and their hard luck stories but there are just as many Bangladeshis and Pakistanis & Filipinos headed home ignominiously.

Tough luck if they never managed to save a dime but there's no reason for anyone to feel bad-life is hard then you die.
 
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So what will the Saudi's do if they have to do their own work? I'm reminded of the Kuwaiti's, couldn't even fight their own war when Saddam invaded them. The young men beetled off to Egypt to party while Americans fought for their freedom. The Saudi's are no different. There are probably more immigrants doing their work than there are Saudi's.
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No stats come out of there, look into Bahrain if you want an example of the Saudi fatherland in that one protest in Bahrain's 'spro0ing' had Saudi sending in tanks with cocked cannons. Government snipers was the main solution along with detentions. Bahrain is a US Naval facility that within an umbrella of tactical weapons so it should be vacated because no one in any row-boats will be coming like a thief in the night to steal the children.

BTW Kuwait was an American operation is response to Saddam coming in to halt the slant drilling. Same seriousness as cattle rustling is, shoot and then hold the trial.

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Tough luck if they never managed to save a dime but there's no reason for anyone to feel bad-life is hard then you die.
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And just why not if the Saudi's were such generous people? Seem the run the same sweatshops that the West used to call Company Towns, slaves with a debit card.
 
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If a person spends all their money on dope and booze that's what happens-booze and dope are widely available in the places where many migrant workers live-the traffic controlled by Ethiopian gangs.
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Saudi Arabia is the sin capital (Lost Wages , Nevada)of the Mid-East??? ROFLMFAO

How about 24 links fto support this bull****. (travel agency brochures preferred with prices. US Universities are always looking for new places to hold their grad parties, seems like they would fit right in. I though I smoked good ****)

They wouldn't happen to live in the inner parts of all the cities would they? How do they become so powerful that they have a 'charter' in every city in the world?
 
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In a way they're doing them a favour. You couldnt pay me enough to take any job there.
 
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