The New Straits Times
Kayveas said there were 92,200 refugees in the country under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
They include 83,000 people from Myanmar, 3,900 from Sri Lanka, 1,000 from Somali, 680 from Iraq and 520 from Afgha-nistan. About 19,000 of them are below 18.
He said to support their families, 10,000 refugees could be working illegally in restaurants and construction sites.
Kayveas added that he would discuss the issue with the prime minister in a meeting scheduled for next month.
KUALA LUMPUR: People's Progressive Party president Datuk M. Kayveas will propose to the government that refugees in the country be allowed to work as maids and construction workers.
He said the country was in need of labour and the government could use them.
"They came here voluntarily to escape the hardships in their country. They are given identity cards but are not allowed to work.
"They do not have money and their children are not accepted into government schools," he said yesterday.
He was speaking after receiving a memorandum from the Alternative Action Team, a non-governmental organisation that looks after the affairs of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees.
He said the country was in need of labour and the government could use them.
"They came here voluntarily to escape the hardships in their country. They are given identity cards but are not allowed to work.
"They do not have money and their children are not accepted into government schools," he said yesterday.
He was speaking after receiving a memorandum from the Alternative Action Team, a non-governmental organisation that looks after the affairs of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees.
Kayveas said there were 92,200 refugees in the country under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
They include 83,000 people from Myanmar, 3,900 from Sri Lanka, 1,000 from Somali, 680 from Iraq and 520 from Afgha-nistan. About 19,000 of them are below 18.
He said to support their families, 10,000 refugees could be working illegally in restaurants and construction sites.
Kayveas added that he would discuss the issue with the prime minister in a meeting scheduled for next month.
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