A foreign worker facing deportation after government-agency raids on market gardens, meatworks and other farms in Western Australia now says that he has been offered a new identity and a fake passport by the job-agency, which had arranged his original visa, to return to Australia again.

Crime syndicates are already planning their next move by providing guarantees of a new identity and a job to the deported illegals for a return back to Western Australia.

Some 200 illegal workers are facing deportation after being detained in the unprecedented multi-agency raids on market gardens, meatworks and other farms in Western Australia on May 3.

The West Australian reports that it has interviewed one worker who revealed that he was unaware that he was working illegally in Australia. He claimed to have originally come to Australia after responding to a newspaper advertisement in Malaysia which promised Australian working visas. Instead of a work visa, he got a standard three-month tourist visa and he claims he had no idea he was living and working here illegally until the raids began.

He says that the same Kuala-Lumpur based job-agency that first arranged for him to travel to Perth is now providing a guarantee for his return, at a discounted rate.

According to the report, the worker rang the company to complain about his arrest but was told, “not to worry because he would get a 50 per cent discount off the price of a fake passport when he got back." The worker said, “They apologised and said we can help you switch or change your identity and this time you can go back on a student visa,"