In Tanzania, immigration is not a new phenomenon.

Immigrants have been

flocking in the country over years even before independence for various
reasons, which include economical, social, cultural and political.

Immigrants have also been floacking to Tanzania from the Horn of Africa.
In recent years, the trend of immigration from this region has increased
significantly. This has involved immigrants from Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea
and Djibout. Most of these immigrants have been using Tanzania as a transit
point, as they seek to migrate further south to the Republic of South Africa
where they believe that they will have a better chance of survival in terms
of economic condition.505 The major means of transportation has been listed
as buses. However, there have been reports of the extreme inhuman means
of transportation in cargo trucks and containers. 506 The conditions over which
these immigrants have been transported have been very poor. These immigrants
have been piled up in cargo tracks like a flock of animals and many have
met untimely death because of the harsh conditions to which they are been
subjected to.
Over the past years, Tanzania has witnessed a number of arrests of immigrants
from the Horn of Africa on transit to South Africa. All these people have been
entering the country illegally ignoring the proper procedure set out by the laws
of the country

Reasons for the rising trend of illegal immigration have been explained as
the harsh conditions that these people face in their countries. This makes
them desperate to risk their lives, travelling in the back of un-ventilated cargo
trucks across the country. These trucks are in many cases loaded with other
consignments together with the immigrants making it unsecure for human
survival while in transit.
Another type of immigration that Tanzania has witnessed in the past years
is that of economic immigrants. These have been mainly from the Asian
countries of China, Pakistan and India. People from Turkey have also been
reported to have been migrating to Tanzania for economic reasons, because of
the improved opportunities that have been opening up in the country. These
immigrants often open up businesses of all sorts, especially in the big cities
of Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Mwanza. The status of their stay in the country
cannot be well established as most of them do not follow proper immigration
procedures.

Illegal immigration: This happens when immigrants, for reasons best known to them, choose to enter
into a country without following the normal immigration procedures. This undermines the sovereign
right of states to control people crossing their borders (Koser