300 OFWs in Saudi tents want to go home

Some 300 Filipinos have been camping outside their consulate in Jeddah for weeks waiting for documents and help to leave Saudi Arabia, as a crackdown on illegal migrants intensifies. As amnesty expired on November 4, authorities have been rounding up foreigners who have stayed behind illegally and are holding them in special centres until their deportation papers are sorted. Another roughly four million were able to find employers to sponsor them. There are around one million Philippine workers in Saudi Arabia. Expatriates account for a full nine million of the oil-rich kingdom’s population of 27 million.

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