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Over the next three years, Kuwait plans to deport 800,000 foreign workers for “committing crimes, being troublemakers, importing infectious diseases and being marginal laborers,” Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Watan reported Aug. 21. The news follows a report by the Kuwaiti daily Arab Times stating that the country’s parliament is discussing a controversial plan to limit the term that expatriates can live in the Gulf to five or six years. While the offenses leveled against the workers are indeed problematic for Kuwait, they do not merit such a large-scale expulsion. The timing of the announcement is directly related to the rising number of open protests from foreign workers demanding better pay and rights over the past month.

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