Al-Moussawi: Foreign workers cause hard currency to leave the country

Information / Baghdad… Today, Advisor to the Prime Minister for Social Affairs, Sanaa Al-Moussawi, called for urgent and serious measures to be taken to limit the entry of illegal foreign workers.

Al-Moussawi told Al-Maalouma, “Foreign workers cause the withdrawal of hard currency from the country, indicating that Iraq suffers from unemployment and the lack of job opportunities for young people.”

She stressed the need to “unify the efforts of the Ministries of Labor, Social Affairs and Interior to limit foreign workers as well as control the exit of currency outside the country.”

She pointed out that “most private sector companies flock to foreign workers because they charge small sums of money, pointing out that the entry of these workers into Iraq has crowded out graduates and sons of the country in the Iraqi labor market.”

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