In Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, bus passengers are facing random checks by police demanding to see valid visas as part of an aggressive national campaign against illegal immigration. The checks on bus passengers are part of a government effort to curb what officials call the trading of national security for “narrow” self-interest. (We can relate to that can’t we folks.)

Officials there warned that anyone harboring illegal immigrants would face the “toughest measures”. In June, an Emirati living in Bani Yas was sentenced to two months in jail and fined Dh900,000 for housing nine illegal immigrants. Citizens are also actively encouraged to report illegals. There are also surprise inspections where illegal workers live or work, such as industrial areas and construction sites. (Here in the good ole US of A employers are warned months in advance to clean up there acts.

The greedy employers in the United Arab Emirates hire the illegal aliens there for the same reason they do here. They get them “on the cheap”.

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