Lots of Tunisians demonstrated in Jebeniana on Saturday to rally the presence of sub-Saharan migrants who have been stranded as the nation intensifies its border guard efforts.
Anti-immigrant rage is roiling in poor cities like Jebeniana along the Tunisian coast, which have become a launch pad for thousands of people hoping to travel to Europe by ship.
Activists chanted slogans to stop settling refugees in Tunisia and demanded that the government intervene to help agrarian communities that deal with the thousands of migrants living in canvas camps among their olive trees.
” You brought them here and it’s your duty to give them back to their home countries”, Moamen Salemi, a 63- time older retirement from near El Amra, said at the rally. ” There is a shortage of food throughout the town of El Amra, including sugar, bread, bread and many other things”.
Jebeniana and El Amra, a final rest stop for many people who long for a better career in Europe, reflect the complex issues that Tunisia faces as a major gateway for refugees from Syria, Bangladesh, and a number of sub-Saharan African countries.
Law enforcement has expanded its reach in the two agricultural cities, where 83, 000 Citizens live among a growing number of workers from all over the world.
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Less than a year after Tunisia brokered an anti-migration pact with the 27-country bloc to better police its sea border and receive more than$ 1 billion euros ($ 1.1 billion ) in aid, protesters claim they have borne the cost of Tunisia’s efforts to stop migrants from entering the European Union.
More than 21, 000 movement attempt by land or sea have been prevented by the Tunisian Coast Guard, according to the report. More than 8, 000 people from Tunisia to Italy were on the ship in the first four weeks of 2024, a three-fold increases from 2023, according to the UNHCR, the refugee agency.
This time, more Tunisians than migrants from sub-Saharan American nations have taken the wooden boat to Italy.
In the town of Sfax, anti-immigrant protests broke out last month, weeks after Tunisian President Kais Saied demanded steps to combat the violence and crime he claimed were the result of illegal immigration. However, they are a recent development in Jebeniana and El Amra, where a similar rally occurred earlier this month.
After local government started extremely clearing them from Sfax last year, encampments sprung up and expanded on the fringes of the two cities.
Around 7, 000 workers are living close to Jebeniana and El Amra, according to the International Organization for Migration’s Tunisia company, though people estimate the number could be much higher.
