The lobby group African Diaspora Forum (ADF) is looking for general amnesty for all undocumented immigrants in SA. The organisation’s chairperson‚ Marc Gbaffou‚ was speaking at the South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC) two-day national investigative hearing on migration‚ xenophobia and social cohesion hearings. "Many immigrants’ kids cannot go to school because their parents are illegal in this country‚ making the children illegal as well. Although the South African Constitution stipulates that every child has a right to education‚ some children of immigrants have continuously been denied these rights‚" Gbaffou said. This is why the forum is requesting the government to grant amnesty to those who were already living in the country. "So that instead of continuing to live on the sidelines of the law‚ in which they continue to access social services through illegal means‚ they can be allowed to contribute to the development of this country‚" said Gbaffou.
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