Mobs Chase Immigrants Out Of South Africa

This article is from late March, but nevertheless is indicative that people everywhere are getting fed up with foreigners taking their jobs and driving up costs: "Hundreds flee as South Africa anti-migrant mobs go door-to-door"--The South African. An excerpt:

    Hundreds of foreigners fearing for their lives have taken shelter in community halls along South Africa’s coast, saying mobs of locals were going door-to-door telling them to leave the country.

    Mostly nationals of Malawi and Mozambique, many told AFP they had fled their homes at the weekend and spent nights in the mountains and bush, before making their way to the small-town community centres.

‘Don’t belong’

    “They said ‘you are a foreigner, you don’t belong in South Africa, so you must go’,” Mozambican Thomas Vincent Baloyi told AFP in Gansbaai, around 110km southeast of Cape Town. 

    “I said, ‘no, I got documents to be here in South Africa’. They didn’t want to know,” said Baloyi, who has been in the country for nearly 16 years working in construction and gardening.

    “They just chased us away like dogs… that is unfair because, actually, I’m a human being,” the 32-year-old said.

    “We just stayed in the bush until six in the morning.”

    Weeks of mostly small protests across South Africa against illegal foreign nationals exploded into violence at the weekend in the town of Mossel Bay, 250km up the coast, where 55 shacks were torched.

    The South African police say two people from Mozambique were killed but did not link the deaths to an anti-illegal migrant march held hours before.

    The Mozambique government said five of its citizens were killed as a “direct consequence of the xenophobic attacks”.

These are black mobs chasing out blacks from other countries. But I suspect that we will see more of this as economies around the world contract.

    In any event, the mob action has prompted the government to do something: "South Africa's president unveils crackdown on illegal migration" reports the BBC. The article relates:

    South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has addressed the nation to announce a raft of new measures to crackdown on illegal migration as tensions rise over anti-foreigner marches and frustrations about high unemployment.

    These steps include jailing employers who hire undocumented workers, setting up dedicated courts to speed up deportations of undocumented migrants and having a register with biometric data "for every person in the country" to stamp out identity theft.

    But he also warned South Africans not to take the law into their own hands.

    Over the last few weeks, several African nations have been organising the evacuation of some of their nationals as fears of violence grow.

    Anti-migrant groups are demanding undocumented migrants leave the country - and have set 30 June as the deadline.

    Last weekend, several hundred African migrants fled their homes in the Overberg region of South Africa's Western Cape Province after reports of door-to-door intimidation, as well as the deaths of two Mozambicans in Mossel Bay.

    Many sought shelter in community halls, at the beach or nearby mountains. Some have opted to return home - and this weekend another group of around 140 people boarded buses to Malawi and Mozambique.

    In Durban, foreigners have been camping outside the city's home affairs department for several weeks, saying they fear for their lives. 

The U.S. should also start jailing employers that hire illegals.