A one east reply. As malaysia counsels to contain the code 19 barks coulthard she said been carrying out military style operations across the capital kuala lumpur. In the name of Public Health and safety theyve rounded up illegal Foreign Workers. When you look at these riots you cant help but think is the practical reality of dealing with a pandemic or is it racism. Were treating them like animals this is not the way to treat a migraine what could these little. Human. But you know the levee. Break the window but i didnt need to go to get that i know my foot with each other. When i went to east investigates why so many foreigners of bains locked up in malaysia is locked down. While the poor. Margaret neighborhoods around the sage any identified as areas with high infection rights have been locked in behind bob wire and barricades. This is part of malaysias response to carded 19 across the city people are being taken from their homes fingerprinted tested for the disease and shipped to valid documents those without them a swiftly taking a last. Minute shut your eyes of whats going on. Were not allowed inside they spent ferries but phone footage from local residents gives us a glimpse inside the crackdown. Shortly after one right i speak with true migrants from bangladesh. Its about its out of this any one of them tells me hes afraid to leave his apartment because he doesnt have a valid work permit he managed to avoid arrest by hiding weve been trying to get witness testimony from paypal but as you can say theres police there we conquered through the wire. I got my i day look this is my id on from the press yes this is an area ok and it is but but were within our rights to report from here. But he stuck to it off. To avoid the or thorough g. s we made another Migrant Worker caught up in the raids at an underground compound. Fearing reprisals from malaysias government the pakistani man only agrees to speak with us anonymously he was arrested with his wife and 2 children there just shouting on us just said dont just get lost keep quiet and be silent we have no words to say and we dont have a viper ask any question found. The man was a policeman in pakistan and says the malaysian authorities were asked blind come up often are very angry and they keep the mobile and they putting on the head like this like this. He says his whole family including his son and daughter west handcuffed and chained together with other children and the elderly under the hot sun they were only relates to hours later after both orosius verified their documents my daughter still is scared she is taught nothing. She said maybe to come again even be have a village documentation did not respecting us as a woman i learn here we have for near have a value just like a dog on. Malaysias economy depends on 2200000. 00 Migrant Workers but its estimated another 4000000. 00 i here illegally taking the dirty dangerous jobs few locals months. They often traffic by agassis exploited and trapped them in a sock. Debs. Soon after the penn dimmick was declared malaysias defense minister ismail sabri called the amnesty so they would come forward and be tested for the virus they did it up for document padilla and then record that pick it up for. Some i dont recall any but it. Could be 19 at the border but if you need more what setting and fighting will get by living but. At a law. Yeah kind of liken it to. Malaysias migrants say that promise now feels like a brutal betrayal. Right one could be a lived in shout kids a district known for its bazaars and curry houses the bangladeshi migrant shows me footage of what happened after the area was locked down behind razor wire raihan says when he heard a knock on his apartment door he thought it was government workers coming to test the 19 or deliver i instead of the next few days almost 600 residents were rounded up pushing trucks and taken away did make a trap for us to make good food they give medication all due to give. So no one expecting there are going to address the people theyre not. Theyre not creamy no. Theyre just undocumented. Right han has a valid work permits but his friends these are an expired free doorway was swiftly taken away by immigration officials he also has been arrested in this time it was not his fault his companion ever he knew his be so. You know i dont i dont die musician and on the Police Station i cry in the gate police let me meet my friends. Down the road right han and i meet for hard charging another bangladeshi detained in the raids hes been working in malaysia for over 20 years 1st in construction and hotels then he started his own business selling fabric. But his visa expired during the lockdown when it was impossible to renew it but it didnt come up in the budget. It was alluding to the. Poor hard says if the forces i aim is to contain the bars cramming people together in immigration trucks is counterproductive. You know but didnt get. To didnt look in the look. Like a close eye on the bottom to the detriment of the way our struggle. So hard has since discovered that 3 people from the right of buildings have tested positive for cars with don t. He fears they could have infected him and many others. Have not especially in the. Activity will diminish even. After the latest. For hard story makes rihanna if hes friends help. He hasnt heard from ray doing since his arrest. Today rihanna is meetings to meet that hes not a human rights lawyer who specializes in helping Migrant Workers so when did he become undocumented if you settled last year this company. Okies Company Going bankrupt then boss old saw hiding his visa and he knew. He had to loan money everything so he became under the window ok bt attempt to go to the Labor Department to file a case against his employer. Mr pierce the people like them here labor here how they. Think they dont know you that anyway just want to meet my friend is that anyway so there is no visitation to any of the. Detention center this is not only for the nationals even the lawyers can point to the Detention Centers to see the yeah. Its all closed for now. Theres little he can do to hold. That right hon drives to the Detention Center anyway hoping to at least catch a glimpse of his friend. He cant wait to see if hes ok because detainees arent allowed phones when they come here and become emotional ice is unbearable for me i cannot meet him i dont know is eating or not i going to give him the food im very much worried about him ryan came to malaysia 6 years ago to study and now works in marketing he says he loves his job and living here but this crackdown has changed the way raihan sees the nation and made him think about leaving this is a total a clear act of racism doesnt think here act of humility people so the so i feel the scale of the future of the migrant people i dont think that the people will keep to trust again for the government because they were afraid. Detention centers have now become hot spots because at 19 with more than 700 reported cases rights advocates say the recent influx of migrants into the already crowded facilities has created perfect conditions for the virus to spread but malaysias defense minister rejects the criticism get are going to record im going to enter by a window rejected to set the record that he got that i didnt. Get back to the. Only state media were allowed into Government Press conferences. Several requests to interview the same minister home minister and his deputies who declined. Lyin rekha that that the state the break the rules took out of the. Then break that into how well do it but i believe you gotta get the kind of my sausage or her hair and then he can cut that get the im bigger somebody time assuming were good the big a b d tank america didnt fill up with pretty. Strong one Health Workers say the raids a creating fear and mistrust amongst vulnerable populations making it hard to contain the spread of coronavirus. The 3rd temple but the 4th issue. At this Health Clinic foreigners queue to be tested for Covert Military but the line used to be much longer. Since the raids began theres been less demand for free testing of amy be apprehensive about coming forward because. Of the possibility of them being exposed and then the possibility of perhaps being apprehended by the authorities for being unbecoming to. Dr ahmed faisal put downs is the president of mercy malaysia which runs these Health Programs for migrants and refugees there definitely would be extra pressure now for those who are undocumented pleasure on them. To decide whether they should come out for testing or not because that micro job harder. Well it makes our job bit more complicated i will say if there is someone or a group of people who are there not to be positive later and we miss them and then big on 3 fact others and then and then create another cluster or 2 which which then will create further problems. Malaysias coded 19 response has successfully contained the initial spread of the virus but dr put downs says foreigners have been unfairly blamed in the crisis one of the impacts of maintain it brings out the best in us in any given time front like work theres a sense that people giving to charity. On the other hand has brought out also as you know for being racism is not accepted this year and they take the option of to your boss to them with social media especially to take out their. Prejudices. And racism on very vulnerable peoples. Quantum pools biggest hole sell food market operates from Early Morning to like knots but it could be 19 outbreak group tried to an abrupt talks here for several days. Now because this is back with one big change margarets long kick these market stalls money can no longer work you. Must i mean. The possible to get them but. Yet getting the guy needs me down is any. Idea that you need and im winning the fact that i never let anyone tell you that theyre to live and i got you know willie davis i see that. Mohamed in sunny been young runs the local Traders Association he says hiring only locals who make market site for. That that make the that i am make it into a company cost with that kind of back let me thank god that what the court had. And everything in it would. Make me. Think i might have gotten them 5 out. If he needed to but then he. Didnt have a cd. I did and what i. Got to know that my mind how is this a fair program or not but probably because. Its an ongoing i had fool for coal mine. Until im going to become one i want to be have 20 years ago i got the answer i knew up young and got the thing i got yeah yeah i did look at they have a coal mine legislation latest in the su until. Muhammad run a recruitment drive to replace the Foreign Workers but locals 500. 00 malaysians applied for just 60 positions. This man was one of the successful applicants oh dont you. Think. That you. Would think you. Were very much but not everyone is happy. Stallholders complained that they new employees cant handle the long hours and manual labor involved some who already quit leaving them understand. That. Some want the hard and put look and it is helpful but with me now morning say will tell you. I got. Hired out that would. Mean. The removal of Foreign Workers from the markers and from their neighborhoods ignatian social media. Photos and videos of the riots which she had online. And she immigration facebook groups have been telling a legal margarets to go. Mohamed thinks malaysia should not allow so many Foreign Workers. In the lockdown began. Because. Foreigners were the 1st to be stood down from construction sites shops office blocks and factories. To. Move to malaysia 4 years ago. So she could provide for her family. She found a cleaning job at a restaurant but her employer didnt want to apply and pay for a visa on her behalf. I mean. Before the pandemic she was. Moving on. To the. With a mega savings depleted rima is now one of the many thousands of migrants starving across the city all the people in her housing block are also out of work she lives in this cramped space with 9 other. So. 5 yes. Some days 6 month old baby goes hungry who took the heat up on how the having a monkey if this was such a sad day the kind of buy at home mom. Maybe not the item number not to lose. The balloon buy out. On the park if they keep going and i must upon the city keep the saw. Is indeed on the list of that but believe me money so. Put. It up limiting some of the people who suffer because of me. But this malaysian is determined to help the desperate like ream of. Our runs the n. G. O. S margaret care at a supermarket hes working trucks to the brim with rice eggs and cooking oil. All the gentle creation all he wanted. Its a difficult logistical operation but. I would sustain deliveries across the city feeding margaret workers who lost their jobs during the crisis call a human being. Desperate for food they are not asking for more so for the. Mr so why 1st. This is one of 8 deliveries the team will make today more than 200 migrants who now get to eat i got that camera down for the film but the fact that. When people are desperate they can help clean up all of the social distancing. Portion of what was taken out by the other but that is what matter. After studying in indonesia and seeing its workers exploited in other countries alexander the n. G. O. S with fellow activists in 2003. They have never been busier receive some donation from somebody. Of course they dont eat out a fund come from my personal savings. So youre doing this out of the goodwill of your own. Alex does his best to allocate aid to the most needy today hes visiting indonesian migrant when the supporter she lives at a squatter settlement near the river. Windy has a work permit but lost her job as a cleaner at a car showroom during the pandemic. When work dried up here the nepalese husband returned home to try and earn money so now its just wendy and her son left in kuala lumpur barely surviving on fish their neighbors catch in the nearby pollution river when these communities desperately needs help. Oh man oh man you know that i dont want the marriage going on i cant say im going to battle. That. Someone you know it took a bit of. It out just to keep it actually to be bad be happy you know. The age hes given. Will last for 2 months but the future is uncertain when he doesnt know when she could work again and hes contemplating leaving malaysia ive got my number to 35. Just exactly where she is if you dont have. To do it because of my 150 people. With travel restrictions in place shes stuck for now like many moderates shell have to wait it out. After im. Dead to keep the high notes little. Bit of fact. As demand for food increases. Work around the clock we can go up to. 16 hours a day and then sometimes we just sleep wake up in front of a computer you have. 2300. 2. 135. 00 baby receiving it so. Growing is that the most stressful. Deli meat that Human Resources we have many of the a budding out. Its training but alex says malaysia is moderate workers whove helped build this country instead of exploiting them and locking them up or ignoring their plight he wants malaysians to recognise them as a vital part of the community. Decide when contribute konami. Among. What i would say said a lot of people like to be in pointing that government should be responsive and foyer should be responsive the way i look at it he said he. Has to be accountable. We are leaving it up coming to. Malaysia is now preparing to deport thousands of undocumented workers arrested in the riots. But critics say this crackdown ignores some of the root causes driving the spread of the virus poverty and exploitation. The government is banning employers from hiring model workers until the end of the year. In a nation that struggles with rights relations it is foreigners who a paying the price in the pandemic. They signed up for a luxury cruise but some would never come hard cock oslo when i went to investigate these ilands deadly focus. On al jazeera. There is no channel that covers world news like we do we revisit cases. Under 0 really invests in that and thats a privilege as a journalist ready. 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