In the wake of the video showing a PRC national shouting death threats to Singaporeans in the MRT last Sunday, emergency measures have to be imposed immediately. This will be a desperate bid to contain the aggressive rise in anti-Singaporean sentiment displayed publicly or posted online by foreigners throughout the island.
The automatic 1 month visa granted to arriving PRC nationals should be reduced to 2 weeks. Most PRC tourists only stay here for a few days, hence the 1 month visa only helps crooks and prostitutes who ply their trade in Geylang openly.
The only Singaporeans who pretend to be ignorant of this glaring fact live in ivory towers.
A 5-year breather in new PRs and new citizens must be implemented now. This will prevent their spouses, children, parents, parents-in-law and grandparents from settling here, which if allowed to continue, will tear the social fabric of our society apart.
Remove the dependent passes privileges from existing S-pass and E-pass holders. These foreigners must be told firmly that they are granted a favour to work here, and not bring their entire clan over!
Stop the issue of long term passes for the controversial study mamas and student passes for foreigners in private schools. This will help to reduce the economically inactive or irrelevant foreigners in our midst.
Stop giving the much-hated scholarship and living allowance to foreign students, most of whom will develop resentment towards Singaporeans during the course of their stay here. Not only is this morally unjustified when locals pay their own fees, it also creates envy and contributes to anti-foreign feelings.
Foreigners and PRs must not work as job placement consultants to spare our Singaporean job-seekers the indignity of finding job openings from them in our own country.
If the Singapore public can find a way to fix the population cap at 5.8 million in 2030, then construction of new dwelling units will ground to a halt by the end of this decade. By then, at least 2/3 of the foreign construction workforce can be wiped off from the face of this country.
During this time of heightened sensitivities, the ministries must be co-operative in deporting any foreigner who has committed a nuisance here immediately. Our decades of nation-building is unraveling right before our eyes and, indeed, it is saddening for many of us who have gone through our educational system believing in one Singapore only to be confronted by foreign tribalists in the broader society.
David Ching
TRS Contributor