{"id":831,"date":"2014-01-22T21:20:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T05:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=831"},"modified":"2014-01-22T21:37:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T05:37:34","slug":"saudi-arabia-says-its-deported-more-than-a-quarter-million-migrant-workers-in-past-3-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/22\/saudi-arabia-says-its-deported-more-than-a-quarter-million-migrant-workers-in-past-3-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia says it\u2019s deported \u2018more than a quarter million\u2019 migrant workers in past 3 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_838\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-838\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/336814_Saudi-foreign-workers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-838\" alt=\"Foreign workers show their passports outside a Saudi immigration office in Riyadh. (Photo from presstv.com)\" src=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/336814_Saudi-foreign-workers.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foreign workers show their passports outside a Saudi immigration office in Riyadh. (Photo from presstv.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia\u2014Saudi Arabia says it has deported \u201cmore than a quarter million\u201d foreign migrant workers from the kingdom over the past three months.<\/p>\n<p>The Interior Ministry said late Tuesday the foreigners had been residing in the country illegally and were in violation of labour laws. It didn&#8217;t elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>The deportations began after Nov. 4 with a nationwide campaign targeting many of the kingdom&#8217;s 9 million migrant labourers after years of lax law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those deported were Ethiopians accused of crossing into Saudi Arabia illegally through its southern border with Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Most foreign workers in the kingdom are from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the\u00a0Philippines, as well as Egypt and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi authorities say booting out illegal foreign migrants will open more jobs for its own citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia\u2014Saudi Arabia says it has deported \u201cmore than a quarter million\u201d foreign migrant workers from the kingdom over &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}