Saudi authorities confirmed that their boarder guards capture over 1000 infiltrators to Saudi territories each day to beg during Ramadan month.
Saudi Okadh paper quoted Jazan passport commander as saying “Our patrols are intensified to capture infiltrators and resident visa system violators, whose numbers increase during Ramadan month for begging.” He requested all citizens to “cooperate by reporting the violating cases to the passports authorities,” he warned that those who are found employing or hosting illegal labor will subject themselves to legal and disciplinary measures.
In a related issue the Jazan passport authorities at the Saudi Yemeni boarders managed to catch last year 250,000 residencies visa violators in Jazan area, at the same period of the year.
Abulatif al-Hashidi, a Yemeni coming back from Saudi Arabia, said that “the illegal Yemeni infiltrators’ number in Saudi Arabia is more than a million. He added that the regularly residing Yemeni citizens in Saudi Arabia are faced with offensive treatment, let alone the illegal ones.” He added that the Khamis Mushait burning’s torture incident discloses the suffering which the Yemenis undergo.