# Home Affairs minister Leon Schreiber says South Africa is stepping up deportations of undocumented migrants as the jobs crisis deepens. Speaking to Bloomberg the minister confirmed that 51-thousand people were deported in the last year, more than France and Germany combined. Schreiber argued that undocumented migrants compete with South Africans for scarce jobs in a country with one of the world’s highest unemployment rates. He stressed the country is managing the situation responsibly, in line with social cohesion.
South Africa deports 51 000 people amid jobs crisis