'If I get help, I will leave this place': foreigners demand UN help to leave SA

[w@nted]

What if the foreigners are part of the #Imstaying group?

 

[Jopie Fourie]

The comments on this thread are quite sickening.

These are not illegal immigrants that are looking for safe passage (or a safe environment), these are people that have obtained refugee status due to conditions in their own country, and yet the Department of Home Affairs has done nothing to issue them with the correct papers.

They are currently in the country legally (they did everything they were supposed to obtain the refugee status) and yet home affairs, being inept as it usually is, has not been able to give them the correct papers.

I know one guy from the DRC who came here on refugee status 10 years ago and he is constantly going to home affairs and the consulate to get his status changed to permanent resident and get his ID book and registration but they keep coming up with excuses. so all that happens is they extend his refugee status documentation. After 5 years he should already be naturalized if they did things correctly and give him permanent residence, and yet he is also one that has to watch his back every time he goes home.

The Xenophobia attacks are not happening only to illegal's, it is also happening to immigrants who have come here through the correct channels.

I for one am glad they have gone to the UNHRC, because hopefully the plight will be brought before the world so that the government and Department of Home Affairs can sort out their **** and start managing our borders and document control for migrants and foreigners correctly.

Yeah, take a look at the posters who tells them to leave the way they came. They are the same clan. Denying xenophobia, like the government.

 

[zippy]

The comments on this thread are quite sickening.

These are not illegal immigrants that are looking for safe passage (or a safe environment), these are people that have obtained refugee status due to conditions in their own country, and yet the Department of Home Affairs has done nothing to issue them with the correct papers.

They are currently in the country legally (they did everything they were supposed to obtain the refugee status) and yet home affairs, being inept as it usually is, has not been able to give them the correct papers.

I know one guy from the DRC who came here on refugee status 10 years ago and he is constantly going to home affairs and the consulate to get his status changed to permanent resident and get his ID book and registration but they keep coming up with excuses. so all that happens is they extend his refugee status documentation. After 5 years he should already be naturalized if they did things correctly and give him permanent residence, and yet he is also one that has to watch his back every time he goes home.

The Xenophobia attacks are not happening only to illegal's, it is also happening to immigrants who have come here through the correct channels.

I for one am glad they have gone to the UNHRC, because hopefully the plight will be brought before the world so that the government and Department of Home Affairs can sort out their **** and start managing our borders and document control for migrants and foreigners correctly.

The comments in this thread reinforce the point these people are making. South Africa is very xenophobic. You can see it from these comments. The irony is that some of these bigots are probably the same people who want the west to accept them as white refugees. The world is watching how South Africans treat refugees.