Former Klang MP Charles Santiago told Putrajaya MP Radzi Jidin that if soldiers are deployed, they should be sent against 'recruitment cartels that manufacture debt bondage and corrupt officials who enable labour trafficking'.PETALING JAYA: Former Klang MP Charles Santiago today panned Putrajaya MP Radzi Jidin for "playing to the gallery" in his call for a nationwide crackdown on undocumented migrants involving the military.

Santiago said migrant workers were not responsible for the nation’s illegal immigration problems, which he attributed to "greed, corruption, exploitative recruitment and unscrupulous employers".

"We continue to blame the worker while allowing the people who profit from exploitation to operate with impunity.