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April 7, 2010 by admin
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http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/04/07/taxpayers-monies-spent-again-to-launch-social-integration-programme-for-migrant-workers/
Written by Our Correspondent
The pro-foreigner PAP is fast making Singapore a laughing stock in the world with its perennial obsession with “immigration” and “integration”.
After opening the floodgates to allow too many foreigners to enter Singapore within too short a period of time, the PAP is now desperately fire-fighting to “integrate” all of them much to the chagrin of native Singaporeans.
Due to the PAP’s liberal immigration and pro-foreigner policies, foreigners now make up 36 percent of Singapore’s population, an astonishingly high percentage among developed countries. Of the remaining 64 percent who are citizens, an increasing number are born overseas.
A mega $10 million dollar Community Integration Fund courtesy of Singapore taxpayers was unveiled last year by the PAP to make foreigners feel welcomed and accepted in Singapore.
It was used to fund a new programme called the Singapore Citizenship Journey comprising ”tours to historical sites, community sessions with grassroots leaders and an online quiz on Singapore history before would-be citizens get their identity cards.”
Now, even migrant workers will be offered a similar “workshop” to “help them integrate better into daily life here by giving them a deeper understanding of Singapore,” the Straits Times reported today, which is almost unheard of anywhere else in the world.
Called the “Social Integration Programme”, it will run for a day and include visits to key places of interest, such as temples in Chinatown and Little India and the mosque in the Kampong Glam area, as well as mini-lectures and discussions, according to the Straits Times.
It will be run by the NTUC LearningHub (LHub), the training arm of the National Trades Union Congress, and the Migrant Workers Centre (MWC).
How a one-day excursion will help migrant workers “integrate” into Singapore is anybody’s guess. Furthermore, these migrant workers are not prospective citizens, or is the PAP considering “converting” them to citizens as well to boost its flagging support base?
In other countries, foreigners are expected to integrate into the local societies on their own, it is the other way round in Singapore. Not only are Singaporeans exhorted repeatedly by PAP leaders to welcome the foreigners, they even have to fork out money to help “integrate” them including migrant workers!
Though it is supposedly a first world country, Singapore has one of the most liberal immigration policies in the world. Two out of three PR applicants are successful and there is no minimal period of residency required.
The state media reported last year on one China National Zhang Yuanyuan who obtained her Singapore PR within two months of application.
Unless Singaporeans reclaim the ownership of their nation in the next general election, they will surely become second-class minorities in their own country of birth being swarmed and squeezed out by the foreigners (migrant workers included) which the PAP is mass importing to perpetuating its political hegemony forever.
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April 7, 2010 by admin
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http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/04/07/taxpayers-monies-spent-again-to-launch-social-integration-programme-for-migrant-workers/
Written by Our Correspondent
The pro-foreigner PAP is fast making Singapore a laughing stock in the world with its perennial obsession with “immigration” and “integration”.
After opening the floodgates to allow too many foreigners to enter Singapore within too short a period of time, the PAP is now desperately fire-fighting to “integrate” all of them much to the chagrin of native Singaporeans.
Due to the PAP’s liberal immigration and pro-foreigner policies, foreigners now make up 36 percent of Singapore’s population, an astonishingly high percentage among developed countries. Of the remaining 64 percent who are citizens, an increasing number are born overseas.
A mega $10 million dollar Community Integration Fund courtesy of Singapore taxpayers was unveiled last year by the PAP to make foreigners feel welcomed and accepted in Singapore.
It was used to fund a new programme called the Singapore Citizenship Journey comprising ”tours to historical sites, community sessions with grassroots leaders and an online quiz on Singapore history before would-be citizens get their identity cards.”
Now, even migrant workers will be offered a similar “workshop” to “help them integrate better into daily life here by giving them a deeper understanding of Singapore,” the Straits Times reported today, which is almost unheard of anywhere else in the world.
Called the “Social Integration Programme”, it will run for a day and include visits to key places of interest, such as temples in Chinatown and Little India and the mosque in the Kampong Glam area, as well as mini-lectures and discussions, according to the Straits Times.
It will be run by the NTUC LearningHub (LHub), the training arm of the National Trades Union Congress, and the Migrant Workers Centre (MWC).
How a one-day excursion will help migrant workers “integrate” into Singapore is anybody’s guess. Furthermore, these migrant workers are not prospective citizens, or is the PAP considering “converting” them to citizens as well to boost its flagging support base?
In other countries, foreigners are expected to integrate into the local societies on their own, it is the other way round in Singapore. Not only are Singaporeans exhorted repeatedly by PAP leaders to welcome the foreigners, they even have to fork out money to help “integrate” them including migrant workers!
Though it is supposedly a first world country, Singapore has one of the most liberal immigration policies in the world. Two out of three PR applicants are successful and there is no minimal period of residency required.
The state media reported last year on one China National Zhang Yuanyuan who obtained her Singapore PR within two months of application.
Unless Singaporeans reclaim the ownership of their nation in the next general election, they will surely become second-class minorities in their own country of birth being swarmed and squeezed out by the foreigners (migrant workers included) which the PAP is mass importing to perpetuating its political hegemony forever.
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