By SCM Foreign Reporter
MOSCOW — RUSSIA is launching a ruthless crackdown to deport thousands of foreign workers and their entire families if they fail to earn enough cash, SCM can reveal.
In a chilling move, the Russian Parliament has rubber-stamped sweeping new legislation allowing state authorities to aggressively spy on the bank accounts and tax returns of migrants. Under the draconian rules, anyone found to be a “low earner” will be stripped of their papers and ordered to get out of the country within 15 days.
The brutal financial purge also targets the children of foreign workers, hitting migrant families with a punitive new “head tax” for every single dependent child.
The law, passed in back-to-back final readings by the State Duma lower house, ties a migrant’s legal right to remain in Russia directly to their financial earnings.
State financial spies will now cross-reference tax data with the Interior Ministry every three months. If a foreign worker’s legal income drops below Russia’s regional subsistence minimum baseline, their temporary low-skilled work visas—known as “patents”—will be instantly annulled.
Once their papers are axed, the cash-strapped workers and their young children have exactly 15 days to pack their bags and flee the country, or face being thrown into high-security deportation centers.
Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin boasted that the harsh measures are designed to “bring order” to the state.
The hardline legislative onslaught coincides with a terrifying wave of enforcement operations across the country.
Shocking police footage obtained from Saint Petersburg shows heavily armed masked officers kicking down doors and rounding up dozens of terrified foreign workers in a series of hostile raids.
The grim footage—showing migrants lined up against walls and packed into police vans—is a terrifying preview of the fate awaiting low-earning families when the mandatory income tracking kicks into full gear.
Under the new financial screws, migrants will also be forced to pay a fixed advance income tax for themselves and a 50% advance tax surcharge for each dependent child. Once a migrant’s child turns 18, they must either successfully secure their own individual work patent or face deportation within 30 days.
This brutal economic squeeze marks the latest escalation in a massive, hostile anti-migrant crusade orchestrated by the Kremlin.
Russian authorities completely turned on the country’s massive foreign workforce following the horrific March 2024 terrorist attack at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall concert venue.
The mass shooting, which left 145 people dead, was carried out by gunmen from Central Asia, sparking a massive wave of xenophobic backlash across Russia.
Since that massacre, Vladimir Putin’s regime has aggressively pushed through a mountain of hostile laws. Over 30 new migration restrictions have been fast-tracked through parliament, including:
Mandatory language tests for foreign children before they can even enroll in schools.
A “monitored individuals” registry targeting suspected illegals.
A massive spike in citizenship fees, which have skyrocketed from 4,200 rubles to a staggering 50,000 rubles.
Russia has historically relied heavily on millions of low-wage laborers from former Soviet republics like Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan to fill vital jobs in construction, cleaning, and delivery services.
However, as the war in Ukraine drags on, Putin’s lawmakers are increasingly using migrants as political scapegoats, weaponizing poverty to flush out those they deem an economic burden to the state.
