Lebanon: Migrant Workers’ Children Expelled

Email Lebanon is deporting locally born children of migrant workers and in some cases their mothers, nine nongovernmental organizations working in Lebanon said today. A recent decision by General Security, Lebanon’s security agency in charge of foreigners’ entry and residency, to deny residency permit renewals for a number of low-wage migrants who have had children in Lebanon and for their children disproportionately interferes with the right to family life. (Beirut) – Lebanon is deporting locally born children of migrant workers and in some cases their mothers, nine nongovernmental organizations…

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