A week after the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of illegal workers, the economic and human consequences begin to be felt in the kingdom. Scenes of riots contrast, there are two nights, the Saudi police expatriates illegally. The clashes left two dead, 68 injured and 561 arrests. Is that calm has returned in this very poor neighborhood?
In recent days, the district where many Manfouha from Africa illegal workers resident was boiling. The campaign to expel undocumented immigrants, led by Saudi authorities since the beginning of the week, largely agitated streets of the inner city south of Riyadh.
Following the deadly riots between police and residents, many illegal workers decided to go to the police. With women and children, they took the bus at their disposal towards the shelters and accommodation for immigrants to expedite deportation proceedings.
The illegal workers had seven months to regularize their papers. Many did not. Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant workers are expelled from the country last week. Police patrols and the Ministry of Labour inspectors continue to search businesses.
Radical consequences of this crackdown, illegal afraid. They do not leave their homes, remain cloistered.
Daily life disrupted
Another finding shop Batha, a district of Riyadh large foreign population, have been forced to lower their curtain. There is less and less garbage and garbage piling up in the streets of the capital, in front of schools.
There is also a shortage of teachers in private schools, and for good reason! Sentenced to not drive women cannot move due to lack of drivers.
Another finding of the work cheap hand deserted sites which now idle.
Saudi authorities are convinced that reducing the number of immigrants, estimated at 9 million out of a population of 27 million, it will encourage the employment of Saudis in the kingdom, knowing that the unemployment rate is 12, 5%.
For their part, Saudi experts are convinced that forced all these foreign workers departure should be beneficial in the future for the economy of the kingdom.
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