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In response to the ministerial directives, Media and Government Communication Division, in cooperation and coordination with Continuing Education Unit at College of Industrial Management for Oil and Gas at University of Basra for Oil and Gas, and within the media plan to reduce illegal immigration, organized an electronic workshop via Google Meet application entitled (The phenomenon of illegal immigration, its causes and ways to combat it).
On Saturday, November 9, 2024, under the patronage of the President of University of Basra for Oil and Gas, Professor Dr. Muhammad Halil Al-Kaabi, and under the supervision of the Dean of College of Industrial Management for Oil and Gas, Professor Dr. Sami Obaid Al-Tamimi.
The workshop was attended by the Administrative Assistant of College, Dr. Haider Ali Al-Asadi, and the Assistant Media Observer, Ahmed Muhammad Abdul Karim, who spoke at the beginning of the workshop about the concept of illegal immigration, its methods and means, and the most prominent damages that occur to illegal immigrants.
They stressed that Iraq has recently become a safe environment and has many jobs for young people wishing to work, and therefore the situation in Iraq has become much better than other countries. All the young people of the country must contribute to build all its institutions and not immigrate to an unknown future, as they explained that the path of illegal immigration fraught with dangers and often ends with the death of hundreds of immigrants, not to mention the decisions to deport refugees from European countries, which affect the psychological and social level.
For the young illegal immigrant, Al-Asadi explained that the negatives of illegal immigration include: illegal immigration leads to many people being injured or killed, especially by drowning, and losing a lot of money that is wasted when paying it in an attempt to illegally immigrate.
Many individuals were exposed to fraud when immigrating illegally, and immigrants might be exposed to arrest, imprisonment, and deportation. He added that the risks were not limited to the method of travel, but those who organize the trips might be part of organized criminal gangs, and might force immigrants into dangerous situations to pay off the remaining debts or homelessness in the streets due to the difficulty of finding work and paying the costs of living or getting involved in a criminal network that might expose them and their families to danger.
The workshop also aimed to show the risks that affect immigrants, including alienation, frustration, feelings of inferiority, anxiety, and failure to adapt to the new society that might treat them with racism and contempt. At the end of the workshop, the students were given the opportunity to express their interventions and observations, which emphasized in general the importance of educating all young people not to take the path of illegal immigration. At the end of the workshop, two immigrants spoke about their experience and its negatives and advised young people not to emigrate from their country.
