DA leader supports efforts to strengthen lawful immigration control and secure the border [SOUND]

# DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis says the party will support every lawful effort in government to secure the country’s borders and fix the broken systems that have allowed illegal migration to become a source of fear and frustration. He has welcomed president Cyril Ramaphosa’s message that South Africa’s economic struggles are not caused by foreign nationals, but by the failure to grow the economy and create jobs. Hill-Lewis says citizens must reject xenophobia, and never allow anger over hardship to become violence against vulnerable people: