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Migrants Issue: Shadow Points and Questions About Disinformation Campaign Targeting Algeria

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Migrants Issue: Shadow Points and Questions About Disinformation Campaign Targeting Algeria

A frenzied media campaign targeting Algeria these days, fueled by gross “disinformation” about the alleged wandering loss of some 13,000 African migrants in the desert, coincided with some developments in the European Union and the United States of America in dealing with the nagging phenomenon of illegal immigration.
The gross disinformation campaign was launched by Associated Press, known for its links with the US intelligence services on the 25th of last month, before it expanded to include Israeli media (Haaretz), France (France 24), Britain (Daily Mail), about migrants allegedly lost in the heart of the Algerian Sahara desert, while on a journey northward.
Such an infamous campaign was launched with an alleged “video” showing a few dozen immigrants who had stopped on the edge of a desert road to fulfill their natural needs, but these scenes totally contradict the number of 13,000 migrants reported, because the transfer of this large number of people requires at least 300 buses.
The reports did not indicate whether it was an organized deportation or a major wave of exodus from the Sahel states. Algeria had smoothly organized deportations in coordination with the countries from which the most displaced nationals, from Niger, came from.
The background to this vile campaign is that it coincided with the controversy in the United States over the untoward decision of President Donald Trump to separate the children of illegal immigrants from their families before retreating under heavy political, media and human rights pressure at home and overseas.
The vile campaign also coincides with the European Union’s efforts to curb illegal immigration, as it aims to set up immigration “detention” centers in the southern Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Tunisia and Libya), an option rejected by the three countries.
The latter stressed the need for EU countries to shoulder their full responsibility because they contributed in one way or another to the spread of the phenomenon due to the unequal distribution of wealth.
The campaign also comes as Algeria prepares to repatriate a new convoy of illegal migrants to Tamanrasset in the far south and then to their countries of origin this weekend, in coordination with the Governments of the countries concerned.
The convoy will as usual be accompanied by local and international press representatives on the basis of respect for humane deportation procedures.
Algeria was in fact compelled to deport illegal immigrants after their number reached very high levels in some areas of the country, to the extent that it threatened the nature of the demographic structure, which was guaranteed by international norms, according to the services concerned, including the Algerian Red Crescent.
In this context, according to sources with a link to the burning file of migration, Algeria spent about 20 million dollars for the deportation of illegal migrants annually, in addition to the significant assistance provided by Algeria to the countries prone to immigration, as part of its active solidarity with all neighboring countries.

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