PETALING JAYA: The government should drop new amendments to the Federal Constitution as it will create a new class of stateless people, activists say.
“Infants and children will be punished from birth.This proposed amendment flies in the face of the reason for its original incorporation into the Federal Constitution. This history is important,” they said in a statement on Wednesday .
They said that the 1957 Constitution granted citizenship to anyone born on Malaysian soil under the principle of"jus soli". The activists added that the decision to remove section 1 will result in the creation of a new underclass, living in a country that refuses to recognise their legitimate existence and systemically bars them from participating in society on equal terms.
“It will undo the Federal Court’s reasoned and progressive decision to protect foundlings from statelessness,” they said. “They are not. They are instead hapless individuals that have fallen through the bureaucratic cracks of the administration.
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