US Denies Role in Djibouti Immigration Crackdown
From the Agonist via Winds of Change
The United States says it has not played a role in recent moves by its anti-terror partner in East Africa, Djibouti, to expel as many as 100,000 illegal immigrants. The immigration crackdown follows warnings by Washington about possible terrorist threats on Western interests in Djibouti.
Were they illegal or just undocumented?
The Djiboutian government ordered the expulsion of the country’s huge illegal immigrant population in July. The immigrants, who make up 15 percent of the tiny east African nation’s population, were given until August 31 to leave. But authorities recently extended that deadline until September 15. Djiboutian officials say the immigrants, who are mostly from neighboring Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, are being expelled because they pose a security threat and are a drain on Djibouti’s struggling economy.
Why would cheap labor be a drain on their economy?
But citing anonymous Djiboutian and Western sources, local and international media have also reported that Washington put pressure on the Djiboutian government to crackdown on illegal immigrants to better protect American troops stationed in the former French colony.
ed: hat tip stevie
If the Djiboutian’s are sucessful in this effort, we can hire their border patrol guys at rock bottom prices.
| I'd suspect we might have had something to do with the crackdown. Djibouti represents a safe haven for our operations. It'll be considerably less safe, given swarms of eye-rolling jihadis popping in from Somalia... |
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