5000 Algerian Illegal Immigrants Are Forcibly Deported From Europe Annually

Algerian illegal immigrants who were arrested across the European continent reached 12,700 during the first ten months of 2018, while more than 14,000 were arrested in 2017, Algerian League for the Human Rights Defense, said.

In a statement that was sent to media, the ALHRD, asserted, on the occasion of the International Day of Migrants, December 18, that “Algeria is suffering from waves of illegal immigration to Europe, a phenomenon that has become remarkable, as the Coast Guard announces almost daily foiled attempts to illegal immigration from the Algerian coast.”

“We counted in the past four years the coast guards foiled the migration attempt of more than 8217 people from the beginning of 2015 until December 2018, while the sea is taking the lives of youth, reaching about 3000 death and missing cases since 2009 until today”.

“The deportation decisions included half the number of illegal immigrants who were arrested in Algeria, and even international and regional human rights organizations have become aware of “human hypocrisy”, as they stood in front of the conditions of young Algerian immigrants who were held in the prisons of a number of European countries due to illegal immigration, and we have not even heard condemnation of these organizations for the forced deportation by European countries against more than 5000 Algerians annually”.

“December 18 is the International Day for the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, which was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations since 2000, and it is an opportunity to affirm that most of the signatories to this Convention are mainly countries from which migration originates or crosses, while all the EU labor-receiving countries and frames have not signed and do not want to sign this international treaty to protect migrants and their families”.

“This anniversary comes in a worsening global and regional situation of immigrants because most of the immigration policies in the world aggravated by practices that violate the rights of migrants. Unfortunately, the Mediterranean has become an “open cemetery” for immigrants, and More than 2160 Illegal immigrants who tried to reach Europe via the Mediterranean died or remain missing since the beginning of 2018″.

“The European Union is reluctant to ratify the Convention to protect the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families, as we continue to be subject to a non-democratic world order in which developed and industrialized countries systematically practice discrimination, to develop strict immigration laws on the pretext of protecting their national security and countering terrorism, while the humanitarian problems of migration, especially irregular migration, are no less dangerous than terrorism, which has become a pretext for States to sacrifice human rights, as this distinction is further exacerbated by the tyranny of a brutal economic global”.

The Human Rights Commission addressed the issues of Algerians missing in Tunisia, saying: “Their families are unaware that they are alive or dead. A number of national secretaries of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights will move to Tunisia accompanied by a large list of missing persons and officially handed them over to the International Observatory for Information and Human Rights in the context of the bilateral partnership between the two organizations. The topic was discussed on December 6-7, 2018 in Tunis. The latter responded by communicating with the Tunisian authorities and his intention to investigate the case”.

The association called on the Algerian authorities to intervene immediately to put an end to this issue and to take into consideration the feelings of parents who are waiting for their children for almost ten years, saying that “they are Algerians and are not just figures, and the authorities can not ignore their suffering in this way”.