The Ministry of Interior has implemented Article 16 of the law on the Residence of Foreigners in Kuwait which stipulates arresting and deporting any residents who have no apparent means of living in the country, even if they have valid residencies. Security sources told an Arab daily that a number of similar cases were detained and deported during the ongoing nationwide security campaigns which resulted in the deportation of about 15,000 expats since the beginning of the year.
The security official revealed that it has carried out the law against those with no known source of income and considered them at the same level of residency violators, after inspecting dozens of marginal workers. The officials said this is “a way to obstruct residency dealers, wherein the security campaigns focused on raiding random markets and seizing street vendors and customers in those locations, and referring them to the residency affairs investigations, in preparation for taking measures to deport them from the country, as they appear to not have enough income to live a decent life in the country,” explaining that “the aim of their deportation is to prevent them from carrying out immoral or immoral acts”.
He revealed that “the number of those who have been deported from the country from the beginning of this year until now, and after the intensification of security campaigns in the country, has reached about 15,000, mostly Asians and Arabs”.
The source warned all residents that “even if their residencies are valid, but caught in a violating workplace, or is caught in random and violating markets, they will be immediately deported”, as deterrent steps to control the labor market and ensure the absence of marginal workers in the country, which officials said has become a threat to the demographic structure, and resulted in illegal practices.
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