Immigration Police Raid Beggars’ Den in Makkah

Immigration Police Raid Beggars’ Den in Makkah
Zainy Abbas, Arab News



Wheelchairs, on rent to beggars, are stored inside the house belonging to a gang leader. (AN photo by Zainy Abbas)

MAKKAH, 25 May 2006 — Passport officials in Makkah have arrested 27 Africans for begging and illegally remaining in the Kingdom.

A passport patrol unit, led by Capt. Mansour Al-Otaibi, undertook the raid in the Tandbawi area of Makkah Tuesday morning. Officials say they arrested 25 beggars with two gang leaders who managed the group. A storeroom full of wheelchairs, on rent to beggars, was also confiscated.

According to immigration officials the gang leaders provided the beggars with housing, food and other equipment like wheelchairs to help them beg. The beggars would then loiter around the Grand Mosque asking pilgrims and visitors for charity.

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Where are the protests, the marches, and the strikes? Where is the Left with its venomous fangs bared ready to strike in the name of 'immigrants everywhere'? Where is the ACLU and its special brand of madness?

You won't find even one protest being made over this, however if it had happened in the US, MSM and the other usual suspects would have wrung their hands into mere skeletal remains by now.