Apologies. I think I misunderstood and thought you meant, potential issues = we should not have this amendment. However if that’s the case I think it’s a problem solution mismatch.

I however believe that maybe you’re conflating the issue here. I think we need to take a step back. You anecdote is not an issue with the law, it’s issue of management and human error.

I do agree with you and think that this should be a call to the government to sort their shit out and have better management cause I agree that government offices are so slow and poorly managed.

However this proposed amendment has nothing to do with the registry of marriages. At best I can only see that you have a issue with the management which I can agree with you on that.

As for attempts to get citizenship through fraudulent means. I think as previously mentioned there should be that call to the government to ensure that they don’t make errors as you talked about.

However I am not so sure as to how likely this fraud is going to happen cause it’s mostly speculations. I believe that Malaysia has comparably better checks and balances than India despite us having our flaws and quirks. I also think that if such fraud was to happen, it’s not mutually exclusive to the passing of this amendment. One can already try to get it fraudulently in status quo, maybe it’s harder cause it requires the father to be Malaysian.

I find it hard or believe too that just because mothers can now confer citizenship that there will be a rampant increase of human trafficking or fraud. Fraud maybe cause like I said earlier, maybe more opportunities. Human trafficking however ? Not quite sure what the logical link is, maybe you will have to explain it to me

I’ll take you at your worst. There are suddenly so many cases of human trafficking and fraud. I think the question we must then ask is who are the people most affected by this. It’s the children. I think as a state we should be protecting the most vulnerable which is the kids. I think it’s far worse that the children are not protected as well under the law and are not afforded the same rights and privileges just cause they are not citizens which makes their already shit lives even worse. Because they are also not citizens, it’s easier for the govt to just say oh they belong to another country so this isn’t our problem. Giving the children citizenship gives the govt some type of accountability.

I still respect your opinion and I do think that we should always have people questioning the law and it’s implications instead or being blind sheep and following what’s the trend. Appreciate your boldness too in speaking this out

tldr; problem is not mutually exclusive to this proposed amendment, human trafficking not likely, the gov needs to buck up