Month: September 2021

Kuwait steps up clampdown on illegal expats, JobsinQ8   Kuwaiti authorities have stepped up a crackdown on illegal migrants, rounding up around 200 foreign violators of residency and labour systems in the country, according to a local report. Police in the governorate of Al Farwaniya had mounted raids on six areas in the populous governorate resulting in arresting 200 such illegals, Al Rai newspaper said. The arrests included irregular labourers and runaway domestic workers. The paper quoted security sources as vowing continued swoops against violators of residency and labour laws and deport them from Kuwait. “A tight plan has been drawn up including deployment of security patrols to sites of haphazard markets and suspected dens of liquor and prostitution,” a source said. Kuwaiti police had earlier arrested 192 illegal expatriates in the governorates of Al Ahmadi and Mubarak Al Kabeer, Al Rai reported last week. The arrested illegals are transferred to prison in pre…