Monitors who visited detainees were told that paying for one’s own ticket was the only way to leave Lindela if they were from countries that do not border South Africa. Flights to countries like the DRC and Kenya are not cheap. If detainees are legitimately undocumented, then they will not have a bank account and so it is highly unlikely that they will have the money to pay for the ticket. In one instance where the detainee did have the money to finance his own trip home, he has already returned from Kenya, and is trying to rebuild what is left of his business and feed his family, while also attempting to regularise his documentation status again. Box #6– Thembi* from Kenya Thembi*(not his real name) is an asylum seeker from Kenya who first arrived in South Africa in 2001. He came to the country on a legitimate asylum case, but due to the backlog, was forced to wait until 2011 to have his formal interview. Thembi brought his family from Kenya with him and started a business making couches and beds. Twelve years after first arriving, Thembi finally received his interview with the Department of Home Affairs. At the interview Thembi was informed that his asylum claim was no longer legitimate, therefore rejecting his claim, but they did not explain that the extension on his document was to allow for him to appeal. Confused, Thembi returned, on the date he was supposed to have submitted his appeal, to the RRC to renew his papers. Upon arrival, Thembi was immediately arrested and taken to Lindela without any opportunity to collect his belongings or prepare his family or business for his deportation. He was only able to contact his family after giving small cash bribes. Once realizing that many fellow migrants had been detained in Lindela for over eight months, Thembi realized that he would have to pay to expedite his deportation. He spent a week attempting to access Home Affairs officials to inform them of his desire to pay for his own plane ticket. One Ghanaian detainee told him that officials would deliberately ignore detainees in an attempt to frustrate them and push them to desperation. After much effort, the Ghanaian detainee informed Thembi that two DHA officials would agree to meet his wife at the airport in order to collect the plane ticket only after an extra payment of R1000.After being deported in early February 2012, Thembi returned to South Africa in March with a visitor permit and is now seeking a business permit. Upon returning, he found that his business had suffered greatly and that his factory had been ransacked and robbed in his absence. Throughout Thembi’s long and arduous experience with Home Affairs, his wife and three kids were left in South Africa without warning, to fend for themselves. Limpopo Limpopo was analysed separately from the Western Cape and Gauteng because it appears to function quite independently. The reasons and details of how immigration policy in Limpopo is implemented differently will be outlined below. The analysis of data taken from the Limpopo province revealed abuse of power, neglect of procedure and disregard for human dignity. Xenophobic tensions appear at dangerous levels. The establishment of a Community Policing Forum in partnership with South African youth and their openly xenophobic approach to crime presents a serious safety concern for immigrants living in Musina. Verification of the immigration status of suspected illegal immigrants is not strictly carried out. Failure to provide, and explain the meaning of, the deportation form that should be signed by every detainee was the experience for most interviewees. Overcrowding of cells in the Musina Police Station was reported by monitors and detainees. Despite periodic monitors in place, the arrest and deportation of Unacommpanied Minors occurs regularly. Violence during arrest was reported by people who were caught along the border and in Musina. The Musina Refugee 36