Ehsan Heidari, a high-ranking official of the Immigrant and Foreign Nationals Affairs of Tehran Governorate, said that since the beginning of the project to organise child labour, 930 child laborers and their 650 families have been deported.
Heidari announced the establishment of a centre for the collection and deportation of migrant child labourers in Tehran.
On Saturday, November 9, Heidari said, "The plan to organise working and street children has been implemented by the Tehran Municipality and the Welfare Department of this province since the past nine months."
According to the plan, migrant child labourers will be identified and collected and then returned to their country of origin from the borders of Iran along with their families, he added.
He noted that this plan will continue "in earnest" until the end of deportation of migrant child labourers from Tehran Province. He also emphasised on the intensification of the process of deportation of immigrants without residency documents in Iran.
The Islamic Republic has announced that it will deport at least two million undocumented immigrants by the end of this year. Currently, many Iranian cities have criminalised the employment of undocumented Afghan migrants and prohibited renting houses to these migrants.
