The cost of illegal immigration :: Mmegi Online

The issue of non-citizens, especially illegal economic immigrants who leave their countries of origin for other countries with better economic opportunities such as the United States (US) in the Americas and South Africa in the SADC region, has taken a heavy toll on the economies of the countries. Following the recent sentencing of a Zimbabwean illegal immigrant at the Magistrates Courts, Mmegi Correspondent, LEBOGANG MOSIKARE, reports that the implications of illegal immigrants are multifaceted

FRANCISTOWN: There are volumes of official documents that show that non-citizens, especially Zimbabweans who were deported from Botswana, continue to defy Botswana’s Immigration Act by re-entering the country illegally. While this is happening and some people may be unaware, Botswana’s Immigration Act imposes heavy fines and/or sentences on any person who ultra-vires the Act.

According to Botswana’s Immigration Act (2010) any person who fails to comply with this Act commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding P10,000, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or to both.

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