Hundreds arrested in Nigeria immigrant raids

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  • In this photo taken Friday, April. 12, 2013 Yushau Ibrahim, stands outside his shop with an injured arm after security force raided and stole nearly $10,000 at Katangua market in Lagos, Nigeria. The buses crammed full of young men leave each afternoon from this busy market in Nigeria’s largest city, some with bruises around their faces and defensive wounds to their arms. The immigrant labor that makes Katangua Market in Lagos thrum along each day between piles of secondhand clothes and down narrow dirt alleyways remains in fear after a series of raids by Nigerian authorities in recent days. Immigrant workers here and elsewhere, those largely from neighboring Niger to the north, find themselves targeted by security agencies anxious about a growing Islamic extremist insurgency in Nigeria that could spread southward. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
  • View PhotoAssociated Press/Sunday Alamba – In this photo taken Friday, April. 12, 2013 Yushau Ibrahim, stands outside his shop with an injured arm after security force raided and stole nearly $10,000 at Katangua market …more 

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The buses crammed full of young men leave each afternoon from this busy market in Nigeria’s largest city, some with bruises around their faces and cuts on their arms.

A series of raids by Nigerian authorities in recent days has brought fear to Katangua Market in Lagos, where immigrant labor makes the market thrum amid piles of secondhand clothes, shoes, purses and other accessories that are laid along narrow dirt alleyways. Immigrant workers, who come largely from neighboring Niger to the north, are finding themselves targeted by security agencies anxious about a growing Islamic extremist insurgency in northern Nigeria that could spread southward.

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One Reply to “Hundreds arrested in Nigeria immigrant raids”

  1. When they arrest illegal immigrants no one says anything, when we do it it is an international incident.