Kuwaiti MPs have called for the deportation of one million expats in the next 5 to 10 years – with a rate of 100,000 expats per year – due to security, economic and social reasons.
The decision comes as around 29,000 expats have been deported from Kuwait in 2016, marking an increased rate of almost 80 expats daily, well-informed security sources revealed, adding the reasons for deportation ranged from traffic to criminal violations.
Reports found that some deportees remain in prison for a month or two due to financial claims and obligations such as court hearings, sources told Al-Qabas daily.
They said the deportation prison management usually books flight tickets for deported expats from travel agencies at the prison.
They also revealed 26 percent of deportees are Indians, 22 percent are Egyptians, 13 percent are Filipinos, 13 percent are Ethiopian, 6 percent are Sri Lankan and 5 percent are Bangladeshi.
“These six nationalities form 80 percent of the deportees, while those from other nationalities form only 20 percent,” the sources said.
“Unless the government is serious in solving the problem and reducing the number of marginal workers, the society will continue to suffer from imported crimes,” the lawmakers said.
MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei called for increasing the number of Kuwaiti citizens by over 50 percent of the population while reducing the number of expats by 10 percent annually and “getting rid of those the Kuwaiti market does not need,” he said.
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