00:00From Johannesburg to Durban, thousands marched across South Africa demanding undocumented migrants to leave the country.
00:08The nationwide protests followed weeks of demonstrations by citizen-led groups that set an unofficial June 30th deadline for migrants
00:17without legal status to depart.
00:19Organizers insist their campaign is about enforcing immigration laws, not discrimination.
00:26This is not xenophobia and it is not ethnic mobilization.
00:32It is a fight for social well-being of South Africa in particular and Africa in general.
00:40There were isolated clashes with reports of looting, stone-throwing and intimidation.
00:45Near Johannesburg security forces escorted foreign nationals to safety as protesters vowed to keep up the pressure until their demands
00:53are met.
00:54We are going to apply pressure on the government and on the illegal immigrants to ensure that this crisis gets
01:01resolved because we don't want things to get out of order.
01:04We have been urging South Africans to say that, please let us be peaceful in everything that we are doing.
01:09But it is just a matter of time before things spiral out of control.
01:16Illegal immigrants, they must leave South Africa.
01:19The protests follow weeks of anti-immigrant unrest that has left four people dead and forced more than 25,000
01:25migrants to begin leaving the country.
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