ActionSA says the Home Affairs Department is not doing enough to track undocumented foreign nationals in the country. The party has been conducting oversight visits to various communities in Gauteng.
In August the party discovered illegal migrants had occupied 23 residential homes in Temba, Hammanskraal.
The homes were converted to spaza shops, restaurants, and wholesalers with counterfeit goods.
“We were at the refugee centre. We were at the processing centre and there’s just a lot of mayhem going on. There’s illegality surrounding the entire precinct of Home Affairs and the officials there were able to share with us and say there are people who come into the country. They come through the ports, but there are many people who come to the country who don’t come through immigration, who don’t come through border systems, who don’t come through the ports. We have no idea of tracking where they are and so, once they are able to cross the border and are able to get into the country, nobody knows where they go. They literally disappear into the air,” says ActionSA MP Lerato Ngobeni.
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