The Ministry of the Interior has failed to propose response measures effective against this problem, and it has ignored the serious shortage and unbalanced allocation of dedicated personnel in the Immigration Agency, to the point that the problem of the increasing number of untraceable runaway migrant workers has become more serious. An outcome of this is that the original employers may fall short of manpower, and the foreign worker caregivers may become unavailable to elderly who depend on them. Migrant workers working illegally can also affect the order of the entire labor market and the native nationals’ interest and rights in employment. These runaway migrant workers can themselves further be easily targeted as the objects of human trafficking or transported for labor exploitation. After investigation and continuing followup by the Control Yuan, the Ministry of Labor proposed draft amendments to the Employment Service Act, so that offenders illegally permitting foreign workers to stay in their employment, or those acting as brokers for or retaining illegal foreign workers, may be fined repeatedly, and that the fines and criminal liability levied against agents illegally brokering foreign workers will be accrued. 29. Several Vietnamese domestic caregivers, while waiting to be transferred to new employers, were suspected of having been assigned by their employment broker to work for illegal employers and they suffered mistreatment at that workplace. They were subjected to labor exploitation, and some were forced by the broker to go to hospital due to physical and mental exhaustion. The Control Yuan made an investigation and mandated a response by the Ministry of Labor. If any migrant worker now is identified as a victim of human trafficking by the judicial police authority, the Ministry of Labor will temporarily blacklist in its information system the employer, the employer’s legal representative, or the person recruiting labor on behalf of the employer; i.e. they will not be permitted to obtain more migrant workers. In the case of domestic caregivers, the person needing home care and other co-living relatives will be likewise registered in the system for restriction. This will apply unless the employer obtains a decision not to prosecute or a not-guilty ruling rendered by the court. All the same, the Ministry of Labor will strictly examine any applications filed by the said persons on a case by case basis. 30. To address the problem of schools admitting foreign students to Taiwan via a broker with the actual intent of engaging them in part-time work as interns for manufacturers, the Ministry of Labor and Ministry of Education should enhance their lateral communication, and work more closely to improve the inspection mechanism. This should prevent schools from operating through unscrupulous brokers to recruit foreign students in the name of studying in Taiwan, while actually making them do physical work, even long hours as cheap labor. A reputation of “physical work in the disguise of internship” would damage Taiwan’s international image in higher education. After 16