The Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Interior issued a joint statement in July 2023 stating that intensive security and inspection campaigns will be carried out on violating expatriate workers in the Jordanian labor market, who do not hold valid work permits or residence permits, work in professions other than those authorized or work for an employer for whom they are not authorized to work.

Tamkeen Association for Legal Aid and Human Rights criticized the arrest campaigns for migrant workers accusing them of being random and illegal. They shared complaints they received of non-violating workers being stopped in public places and during their day off despite the validity of their work and residence permit. The arrest of the worker violates the provisions of the labor law that it must be done in the workplace and not outside it and violates the human rights of the worker to freely move and to days off as employers fear letting their workers leave the workplace.

Female migrant domestic workers have been particularly hit by the recent campaign as Tamkeen reports on several arbitrary arrests in which they were kept for days and denied the right to alert others to their arrest.