National Advisory Committee for the Protection of Human Rights warns of the African Illegal Immigration in Algeria

National Advisory Committee for the Protection of Human Rights, warned of the alarming increase of the numbers of migrants to Algeria, because of the bad security situation and living conditions in many of the neighboring countries, and called upon the authorities to hasten measures to contain the situation before the outburst.

National Advisory Committee for the Protection of Human Rights, which belong to the Presidency of the Republic recorded in a study that was carried out in cooperation with international bodies, a significant increase in migration flows towards and across Algeria since the 2000’s, and it reflected “the need to” create a regional observatory to provide appropriate solutions to this phenomenon.

The study, titled “contribute to the knowledge of mixed migration flows” showed that the current context, “led to an increase for this trend with the coming of deported people, as well as the return of Algerians from crisis countries.”

According to the study, geographical positioning of Algeria’s neighboring countries which live in crisis, “enhances the movements of illegal immigrants by land”.

Algeria “suffers from a huge pressure without benefiting from the help of the international community which is concerned with the armed conflicts in the region.”

The document recorded that “These uncontrolled movements are organized across the country in corridors, in defiance of all the possibility to settle the internal flows”, asserting that, “resources were deployed by Algeria to monitor all the corridors that may be insufficient in the end.”

The study says that Algeria is crossed by immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, for different reasons of migration by groups to which they belong, and it comes to economic migration and transit, which concerns people who are leaving their country because of a “lack of socio-economic prospects”. In addition, the border Immigration, coming and going movement, which is traditional in the major cities of the South, and it comes to people who visit Algeria coming from their country of origin according to the economic seasons and widgets, and the third Category of immigrants concerns persons who are seeking international protection for fear of stalking in their countries of origin.