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The video on top is in Bneid al Gar while the one below was shot in Jleeb. The videos feel like an episode of COPS.


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they need to define what is illegal.. people with valid residencies are being arrested and deported because they are not at sponseror’s house.. the visa is for Kuwait and not for a locality.. and what are you going to do to the sponsorer.. he/she is free to bring another round of people and make money out of miseries of poor….

True, the crackdown should start from issuance of visas itself, the number of ‘khadim’ visa issued to a family should be minimized to 1 per family or to a limited amount. Here for a family of 4 5-10 visas get approved, and this is the root cause of the issue, and i think its haraam to be so tough with the poor ‘khadim visa’ guys, who might have sold their last penny worth to come here and make a living.

I wanna see the law being applied to me & to others, I don’t mind what they are doing as long there’s no w96a.

(The below warnings are circulating within the Asian expat community … fact or fiction?)

Beware of the below during recent checkings
1. Police can check any VOIP call software on your mobile if they catch youā€¦ people have been held in police station for using VOIP calls.
2. Check your carā€™s daftar to know is it 4 ,5,6 or 7 seaterā€¦ do not over crowd the car than the permitted capacity
3. Do not drop your friends/relatives to airport ā€¦. Police are holding up drivers in the name of private taxi
4. Police raid flats during early hours like 2 am , 3am and can ask for marriage certificate if you are a family and other documents .
5. Bachelors staying in sharing should avoid sharing flats with other family or friends.
6. Last but not the least, you can be held if your civil id address does not match your residential address.
7. Do not take private taxi ā€¦ or lift from unknown people

In other words, know the law and abide by it and you’ll be OK. Many of these people know that it is a violation of residency laws to live in an address different from what’s on your civil ID but they continued to do it because the law was not enforced in the past. Now, it is.

That’s what you call, ‘an extreme simplification of the problem’.

Let’s state clear that even if those expats are suspects of residing illigal in Kuwait, doesn’t give the authorities automaticly the right to deny these people their Human Rights.
It’s obvious that in the current deportation urge, the proper legal procedures are not being applied.

Being a member of the UN Human Rights Council since 2011, Kuwait fails to act according the same Human Rights which they supposedly protect by their membership.
Kuwaits membership of the UN HR-Counsil can be considered as a slap in the face of dissidents and people from another origin, -race or -religion.
In 2014 the membership expires. Maybe also the reason what these sudden actions clarifies.

But it’s no surprise really. Read this quote from a Kuwaiti official in the Arab Times regarding another human rights issue. A clear violation of article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Quote
‘He added that giving excuses such as it is a matter of human rights and international norms…….., is not acceptable,…………, and people should respect ………… before serving humanity or anything else’.
End quote
Source: https://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/186061/reftab/36/t/Churches-should-not-be-built-in-Islamic-countries-say-preachers/Default.aspx

A refreshment:
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
https://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

The authorities are doing exactly what the UN is asking them to do; stop human trafficking. Those arrested are turned loose immediately if their papers are in order. The Innocent person has the right to sue if his rights were violated. The guilty ones are being bought and sold by human traffickers. Yes, they are victims, but they’re also partners in crime. The traffickers should also be punished.

This is all happening because the authorities were lax in enforcing the law for decades. Thanks in part to pressure from the UN they are finally doing something about it.

The EU is does the exact same thing with those trafficked from Asia & Eastern Europe. If caught, detention, processing then deportation is the usual procedure.

Here’s what they do to illegal immigrants in the EU: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?language=en&type=IM-PRESS&reference=20080616IPR31785

I’ve heard of someones wife being deported as she was not carrying her CID on a visit to a baqala under her building. She was detained, next day her husband produced the valid docs, she was still deported.( May be a false news)> But this is not the only one.

These are the kinds of rumors that become rife in times of uncertainty. No one is deported the next day. People are first allowed to communicate with their next of kin or embassy. If they cannot produce valid documents, they go through processing which could take up to two weeks.

These days, you would think anyone with a semblance of commonsense would have their civil id on them the minute they step out of their home. Stupidity always leads to bad things.

Buzz you are absolutely wrong. People with civil Ids have been deported, people driving in the same car as their friends have been jailed. People evicted from their houses because of rent increases who have temporarily relocated – have been deported…

But hey, as you say – just follow the law right? cough cough bullshit! Obviously you have no idea what you are saying!

Have you actually read the press-release from 2008 which you refer to?
I didn’t find any similarities comparable to the situation in Kuwait. As a matter of fact, there isn’t any country in Europe which uses raids to arrest people, which only criminal act is an illigal stay in the country.

People don’t come to Europe for work based on a working-permit, but mainly under the umbrella of a vacation, as a refugee or any other excuse.
Regardless, they never have the intention to leave voluntary after their visa (if they have one) has expired.

Still every year thousands of illigal immigrants, mostly from Muslim-countries, try to enter- and obtain a legal status in an European country. Many of them just by throwing away their official documents and ask for political asylum, because they are being ‘prosecuted’ in their own country – as they claim. During this legal process they have the right to stay for as long as the legal procedures this allows, which can be up to 8 to 10 years.
A period which is too long and based on that fact, many of them receive a permit stay on humanitarian grounds. Not long afterwards followed by the real reward, the nationality, after which they can legally immigrate their family as well, based on the family reunification law.
Conclusion: If you’re a good liar with endurance, you have a good chance to be rewarded with a 2nd (European-) passport.

Comparing these phenomens is equal to comparing apples and pears.
Btw. How many refugees from Muslim countries have fled to other Muslim countries in the past decades? I guess that would have made sense to me.

The battle against human trafficking, demanded by the UN, has to start with the abolition of the sponsor system, which is in the hands of the Kuwaiti Government and its citizens. Expats are not the initiators of this system, but the victims.

Final.
If Kuwait doesn’t want to respect the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which they obviously don’t because of their ‘pick a cherry’ approach, they don’t belong in the UN Human Rights Counsil which has to defend the rights of all human beings. Not only that of the Kuwaiti citizens.

They do have raids in Europe, and if some countries don’t it’s because of insufficient resources and not human rights. The political asylum story works in one case, if the seeker has evidence of being persecuted personally; even then it’s not easy. Claiming your country is hell is not sufficient. Italy detained then deported thousands of African, Libyan, Tunisian illegals, some handcuffed, after the turmoil in Libya and Tunisia & elsewhere in Africa. No one got asylum. National security always comes before human rights.

No country worthy of being called a country does the opposite. I don’t know if you live in Kuwait, but crime rate has soared to unprecedented levels and people are sick of it. Almost all crimes are committed by illegals without jobs.

Yes, the sponsorship system should be reviewed and those who sponsor people then throw them out in the streets should be prosecuted to the fullest, but the raids should continue to restore order and people no longer fear being hacked to death in a shopping mall by someone who’s here illegally.

The fortune seekers you mention in Italy, were trying to get into the mainland of Europe, where they wanted to spread across the continent in order to ask for asylum in any other Schengen country of their choice. To prevent that they would achieve that goal (instead of going home and help rebuilding their own country) the Italian border police had to act.
If you want to compare this with the situation in Kuwait, well, thatĀ“s fine to me.

Remains remarkable that these refugees didnĀ“t ask for asylum in a Muslim country.
First of itĀ“s more nearby and secondly they share the same values, culture and religion.
This in contrary of Europe, which isnĀ“t -, and donĀ“t want to become a Muslim continent.

Why do they all want to come to Europe and not to a GCC country? They speak the language and itĀ“s much easier to integrate as well. Why fleeing to a community of countries with a culture of non-believers which they despise?

If the GCC countries would have allowed them to enter, there wouldnĀ“t be a problem with Asian expats in the first place. Labour workers enough among them, I presume.

Or is the real problem that these Ā“refugeesĀ“ wouldnĀ“t be that easy to Ā“play-aroundĀ“ with in comparison with the Asian labour?

These seekers from Africa would be more than happy to come to the GCC, but they can’t. The logistics are too difficult (how do you travel illegally from Somalia to Kuwait or Dubai?). Europe is much easier; just travel through the desert to the Mediterranean coast, hop into a raft and voila! You are in Italy. The Italians are the number one European victims of illegals because they are so close to Africa.

Perhaps the whole thing is just a ploy to divert the attention of the media and people from the ‘real’ issues plaguing the country.

Yeah totally agree but if you move to another location let’s say from Hawally to Salmiya can you change your address in the civil id right away considering let’s say you have 1 year visa out of 2 years? for sure if you requested to your company mandoub he will surely say that yes he can do that when the time he will renew the civil ID. So this part is fail.

3. Do not drop your friends/relatives to airport ā€¦. Police are holding up drivers in the name of private taxi?

FUCK!

Changing your address on your civil ID is very easy. You just need the time, transport and rental agreement to do it.

due to this so called raids, we can’t even travel with our friends in the car forget friends not even relatives….

for the authorities, everyone is providing illegal taxi service…. what kind of law enforcement is this..in this world noone travels along with their friends ??

great rhetoric – considering you dont even know the guy your words are meaningless. his unfortunately,. are not. Patriotism the is the last refuge of the idiot!

I have left that god forsaken country. It’s a mental prison that breaks you down bit by bit. Now I’m chilling on patio back home,sipping on tequila with no fear of being arrested,and watching women in tight fitting pants and shorts walk by.FREEDOM!

For all the people who think that its just the marginal workers who will leave Kuwait… think again! The people on this blog who are aghast at this crackdown and inhumane treatment are not migrant workers.. some are perched high up the food chain! Thats obviously going to dent the economy in a way – big or small we just dont know yet. I say big… any bets?

what makes you think expats who actually make a difference and are “high up” in the food chain want to leave kuwait? Funny how all you expats are mad because kwt is enforcing the law.

No Matter what is the rationale behind this crackdown and/or deportation, it just doesn’t justify the lack of decency.

Slamming doors at 3am requesting Civil ID is lacks conformity to standards of sense, propriety and Islamic teachings.

true. This is why there should be a judge ruled warrant system in affect.

Also, unwarranted searches should be illegal punishable by law if there isn’t a justifiable probable cause.

I know they are ‘acting in the name of the law’, but this is an example of poor human rights practice in Kuwait..

Shoving indians and smacking phones out of their hands in wrong. My advice to the expat community is to put passcodes on your phones and refuse to unlock without a court order.

I don’t understand what iss the meaning of Asian community??? Kuwait comes under Asia, so even Kuwaitis are Asians!!

These videos remind me of how Nazis treated Jews before the war!

So Kuwaitis are confiscating immigrant wealth and throwing them into gas chambers?!
I suggest you read up on the holocaust.

Sort of…
People who enjoy cradle to grave welfare system indulge in visa trading… selling khadim visa for 600kd a year and leaving those people on streets… if they are caught by police, the same sponsorer demands 300kd to visit police station to get them out…
This is nothing but sucking poors blood…

Where is the origin of such behaviour… flawed upbringing. ….and it will get worse till as they say, karma catches up, sooner or later

no not sort of the holocaust was a genocide this is deporting illegal immigrants which is routine around the world if you disobey immigration laws you get deported. If you don’t like the system than go back to your home where you wont face immigration problems.

It’s arrogant that I want the laws in my country to be enforced.
“Look a murder is taking place, lets call the police”
“Don’t call the cops you arrogant idiot”

They can’t enforce a measly smoking ban in the international airport or public malls for that matter, leave alone murder.

want law to be applied.. when you catch an expat, take pains to see the reverse of his civil id and call the sponsorer and book him… target the source of the problem..not those who are victims of the ill, flawed and corrupt system

yep exactly right on the stealing immigrant wealth! In a roundabout way sure… but hey – lateral drilling, visa trading, not paying workers, corruption – you name it. If you think this nation is putting all its eggs in the oil basket, you are sadly deluded.

At the VERY least Kuwait is a slave-trading state!

where is the human rights on this ? they put them as animals in cages , and about 10 ppl in the back seats of the SVU, what is this , and why im only seeing indians ,asians and africans …
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they didn’t do dat BIIIIG crime to deserve this kinda treatment .

Stop exports of vegies, meat, clothes, iron ore, wood, you name it.. Over 85% is exported for daily survical.. oil can be imported from other sources…
not everyone can shop in Sultan and buy exotic organic things grown in alps..

Most of the people caught are victims rather than culprits. The culprits are not even questioned for their irregularities but they may be allowed to issue fresh visas again to new buyers. The new buyers again caught by government and the cycle will continue.

If the authorities really keen on this task they should concentrate on issue of new visas and implement strict survellience on citizens who are issuing visas too.

Minute 2:19 on video number two is epic.. I think one of the violators outsmarts the cops.. haha pulls one of those “is this bus number 76”..lucky escape perhapes?

Where else can they show it off let alone use it.

Reminds me of the same mentality just before Saddam had to teach some mannerisms.

I’m just sad a lot of good Kuwaitis will get a bad name in the international community because of a few idiots .

I see another random post flooding my timeline – I am assuming its a rumour but what the hell, It’s almost impossible to say what’s true and what’s not right now..

Apparently, a mother and her daughter were stopped by cops just to make sure the two were related.. If true, I am wondering if this is going to go to the next level – no more hangouts with the opposite gender if you are not related ..

Well in the US they detain illegal immigrants into for profit prisons were they work their way to buying a ticket back home to Mexico. Abuse issues in for profit private prisons are horrible so imo I’m glad Kuwait is doing something about the number of illegal immigrants in the country.
That being said we should also heavily prosecute those who sell iqamas for profit immediately.

that is so ridiculously far from true and the facts are exxagerated uncontrollably. If you are an illegal immigrant, you are deported from the states immediately and by means of the states transport (bus to mexico, and you make your own way from thereā€¦ also no deportations to cuba..)

I agree with your last statement but disagree with the one that precedes it.

You are lucky you are in a position where you dont have to illegally reside in a country for harsh life because its better than the other one you are subject to. These people scrub pennies together to try to make a living where the standard for these people in the country is undefined and disgusting.

I am Kuwaiti and completely against the many ways that we operate immigration, residency, and naturalisation.

By deporting someone we may be subjecting them to a life of impossible living and maybe death. But what do we care? Why should we allow these poor souls pick up the jobs that no one else wants?

If you REALLY are a Kuwaiti then there should be more of you standing at the Airport to clean the hostile image it sets from the starting point of the tarmac!

So we are responsible for the world’s destitute???? Have you seen the homicide rate in Guatemala we should import thousands of Guatemalans using that logic.
You live illegaly you get deported, it’s called the law. Nowhere in any post did I mention that I am against immigrants who work hard in this country our economy needs them I am realistic about that. But not at the cost of the law.

using that logic then we should have Shariah governing the country xD
and getting of my high horse…..talk about ad hominem attacks due to a lack of response.

https://news.kuwaittimes.net/2013/06/05/truth-hurts/

* I haven’t seen any other country where there is discrimination in treating people based on nationality! That too even after the expats being the only people who pay for hospital coverage!

* I see many people compare Europe & US with Kuwait!! Bloody in Europe you become a citizen after several years of residence. How many of the so called “Asians” have been given citizenship???

* Expats need to carry Marriage certificate with them!! outrageous.

* As long as Kuwait cannot progress (should be much ahead of any other first world countries with the amount of free money they get from oil), people will keep blaming expats for their miseries.

I agree with many of your statements. There is a clear concise system that is apparent and made aware to people in ‘the west’.

However, please do not fool yourself if you think you can jump to europe and become a citizen after a few years.

A dear friend of mine lived in the UK for 5 years and overnight had to pack up and leave because they decided there is no room for immigrants. The naturalization process takes a minimum of 6 years if you have a lawer and everything runs smooth, otherwise its close to 10 and never ever easy…

If you haven’t seen worse discrimination then you haven’t been reading the news for the past 2 decades. You missed the hacking and slashing going on around the world due to ethnicity.

A country handing or not handing out citizenship is that country’s right. I’ve spent close to 9 years in a “Western” country without falling into a category to obtain citizenship, not that I wanted it.

People blaming expats for their miseries are just idiots, every country has the right to have idiots. You can’t tolerate them and you can’t be intolerant off them :/

1) Automatic assault rifles for harmless expat suspect residency violators.

2) Not allowed to enter government hospitals in the mornings even after paying the annual medical fees.

3) Creating panic and havoc to the hapless expat community by knocking on doors in early hours of the day for checking civil id’s.

4) Impounding car’s which are a few years old by revving them to a sports car like red line of 8000 rpm and claiming to see smoke.

5) Arresting people by snatching their personal phones and browsing through them for voip softwares.

6) Deporting expats even without informing their respective embassies , take their belongings or trying to listen to what they have to say in their defense.

In the following weeks I just want to see if Kuwait can get any more racist and inhospitable than this. Does UN or any other humanitarian organization know about this ?

haha..i really feel its like all the years of them sitting wastefully watching english action movies have stuck their heads.. one day they woke up n decided “time fer me to do something too..letme flex my muscles on some poor “illegals..” šŸ˜€ šŸ˜€

We all should follow rules and regulations,
To ensure this ā€¦ā€¦I believe is Kuwaiti citizens should step up I am an expat here in Kuwait, I have seen a lot of expats donā€™t follow rules here because ā€œKuwait donā€™t follow ā€¦..Why should I? We all need to change this mentality over hereā€¦.Law is enforced to protect the people not to make more problems for themā€¦ā€¦ The only people who are getting out of this country are the people who were involve in some serious crime.
I donā€™t think that somebody is being deported because he/she have viber or skype in his cell phoneā€¦ā€¦(If there is any please provide the source donā€™t just blame ā€¦.)
What I believe is authorities will have to show for once at least they exist in this country ā€¦and in addition LAW must be same for expats and citizensā€¦ā€¦

I disagree. Law must be only for the expats , why should we worry about the citizen’s. It’s their country , their freedom.

We must not butt in their business.

Finally the law started to apply on all.

People used to complain that the law is not applied, but now it started.

Just hope that they keep it that way and penalize kuwaitis too, so they can learn and start following the law.

It will take a lot of time but the faster it starts, the faster people will learn ( Inshallah šŸ™‚ )

I am Kuwaiti and I want the law to be applied to me if I did something wrong.

Hopefully the employees of the Ministry of Interior who started this, will continue working like that.

The incidents that are happening, shows that a person or people in the Ministry, started working properly.

Even Assistant undersecretary of Traffic Department, Al-Ali, I hope that he will continue working like this and that nobody will stoop him, rather than employees will take an example from him and start working in the same manner.

I used to work in New York for an investment bank. I came here to be with my family as I grew up in this country. I knew i would always be a second class resident of this country, discriminated against no matter what purely on the basis of my nationality/religion/colour of my skin. But i hoped Kuwait would have changed especially with the new generation being western educated an all, and that i wouldnt have to tolerate bigotry the way my parents had to. Unfortunately, it seems this country is fast regressing. I am getting out. my children should not have to live in fear.. they defintitely dont need to see assault rifles, see having their parents prove their marriage to some 18 yr old bl**dy cop and they definitely should be entitled to medical treatment at “ALL” times of the day. that my Kuwaiti friends.. is what you call being civilized.

It is good see the strict enforcement of laws.

But why nobody is punishing the ā€œKafilsā€ who made money and brought ā€œkadamasā€ into Kuwait.

So the law is applicable only to the poor? Stop this discrimination. Unfortunately even the intellectuals of Kuwait are not raising their voices against this inhumanity.

Yes. But please make sure the “money” paid to the Kafil is returned to these poor people.

Justice is justice.

You can say bye bye to that money.

I wonder how they sleep at night knowing that they are living on another families suffering.

proud Kuwaity :How many kuwaitis clean road and collect garbage? You do not need expats for being mudeer! Thats true. I agree!

Proud Kuwaity might do it for his country.

OR they can just go about the usual way of bringing in more poor souls from other countries using their money , sucking their blood and then deporting them back.

What the hell are all embassies doing in Kuwait ? There should be an immediate ban on sending workers to Kuwait !!! Dialogues and discussions must not be entertained especially after the governments recent actions.

I wish the indian embassy immediately issues a ban on all people coming to kuwait on new khadim visas. Also, try and use its clout on sri lanka and perhaps even philippines to do the same…. and then, i would love to see proud kuwaiti’s face when every single service in this country systematically goes into chaos or shuts down.

This kind of sums up Kuwait in a nut shell.

Your minister just had to spit on some diplomat’s face from Iraq thinking there will be no repercussions. And once attacked you couldn’t defend yourself and needed US’s help. Now you all mock the US.

After the gulf war you needed all the expats from rest of Asia to build your country and economy and now you are deporting everyone like dogs.

Honestly I have not seen a more thankless breed of people in my life. But saving grace is there are still a small percentage of good people who accept and know these facts but they are helpless.

Are you fucking kidding me ?! this is bullshit. They’ve gathered them all around on the ground, while some dipshit is filming them, and the so called cops are taking pictures and laughing ?? where are the human rights people ? How can they get away with doing all this ? The embassies of these nationals should just shut down and just cut all relations. Comes to show how little to non freedom expats have in kwt.

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