Sale of citizenships

Dr Amy Khor has encouraged Singaporeans to embrace PRs and new citizens to make them feel at home in Singapore

"The worry at the individual and ground level really is about locals seeing new immigrants coming, applying for the same jobs, same schools and housing and they fear crowding out and competition, although at the intellectual level, many understand there is a need to augment our population with new immigrants to grow the economy and to increase the number of jobs level"

"And we got to continue to assure them that - be it in terms of sharpening the differences between PRs and citizens, as well as appealing to them to have open hearts and open minds to understand that even for new citizens, they have actually taken a big step forward, given up their birth rights in their own country to set up home here.

“By and large, most of them are wanting to start afresh here, build up their home and future here and our locals must give them a chance and welcome them and together forge a new identity with them so that together, we can build a good future for Singapore as a united people. We need to continue to do that"
Taken from a Channel News Asia interview

OMG...not again

I comprehend that foreigners are needed to fill in the voids in occupations which locals are not willing to take up. However, at this rate of increase in our population by handing out blue and pink ICs to foreigners, the government looks more like having a sale of citizenships

The recent one extra ballot entitled to citizens for primary school application proposal is just a "passer-by". The whole objective of the ruling party and its plans appear to be the same

Singaporeans should not be misled because foreign talent is still the lead actor. The long term investment in foreign talents is a reality. But how long more can true blue Singaporeans with pink ICs last before being outnumbered by "new" pink and blue IC holders?