{"id":47094,"date":"2022-11-25T09:32:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T09:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/over-200-illegal-migrants-deported-to-home-countries-from-libya\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T09:32:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T09:32:39","slug":"over-200-illegal-migrants-deported-to-home-countries-from-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/over-200-illegal-migrants-deported-to-home-countries-from-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 200 illegal migrants deported to home countries from Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Nasser al-Khatroushi, head of the Deportation Office of the Anti-illegal Immigration Department, the migrants, who are from Egypt, Niger and Sudan, were deported by land to their own countries.<\/p>\n<p>The deportation was done for the first time in collaboration with the Anti-illegal Immigration Departments of Eastern and Southern Libya, the Libyan official told Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, we are very happy to see officers from Western, Eastern and Southern Libya gathered here in Tripoli to solve the issue of illegal immigration, which is a complicated issue,&#8221; said Mohamed al-Khoja, head of the Anti-illegal Immigration Department.<\/p>\n<p>Libya has become a preferred point of departure for illegal immigrants who attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach European shores.<\/p>\n<p>According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a total of 20,842 illegal migrants, including women and children, have been rescued at sea and returned to Libya so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, 500 illegal migrants have died and 863 others gone missing off the Libyan coast on the Central Mediterranean route, the IOM said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-45321 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/ilok.jpg.png\" alt=\"Illegal migrants walk out of the Deportation Office of the Anti-illegal Immigration Department in Tripoli, Libya, on Nov. 24, 2022. The Libyan Anti-illegal Immigration Department on Thursday deported more than 200 illegal migrants to their countries of origin. (Photo by Hamza Turkia\/Xinhua)\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{TRIPOLI, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) &#8212; The Libyan Anti-illegal Immigration Department on Thursday deported more than 200 illegal migrants to their countries of origin.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47094"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47094"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}