by Chris Black
Wait – illegal foreigners need documentation to stay in a country?
I never in my life heard of this rule.
Wait, wait, wait.
You can just “deport” foreigners from your country? Like, you send them out and they don’t come back?
This is a real thing that governments can do to foreigners in their country?
How did I never hear about this?
Pakistan has repatriated over half a million foreign nationals who had been living illegally in the country in just three months, the country’s interior ministry has told the Senate.
A major deportation drive was announced by the Pakistani government in October last year, telling migrants living in the country without the required documents proving they were authorized to do so they must go home by the end of the month.
The interior ministry estimated around 1.73 million Afghan nationals had no right to reside in Pakistan and warned they would be tracked down, detained, and forcibly removed from its territory should they not comply with the request voluntarily.
Wait – tracked down, detained, and forcibly removed?
Did anyone know a government had these abilities?