Middle East Focus-Arabia Deserta: Catch Me If You Can: a Sign of Economic Times in Arabia

Arabia Deserta

Catch Me If You Can: a Sign of Economic Times in Arabia

"Illegal workers in Saudi Arabia hope to be arrested: As an illegal foreign worker sleeping rough in Saudi Arabia’s second largest city, keeping beneath the radar of the immigration authorities should be a priority for Henry Lopez. But for the Filipino and hundreds of other men and women camping out under a motorway flyover in downtown Jeddah, deportation is exactly what they are looking for. The workers are willing to sleep and eat in unsanitary conditions beneath King Fahd Road – sometimes for months on end – in the hope they will eventually get to return home with a free air ticket, courtesy of the Saudi government......” The National
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