Refugees and asylum seekers in Durban, South Africa face mounting fear ahead of a September 30 deadline set by March and March, an anti-immigration movement that has staged protests across the country demanding undocumented foreign nationals leave. Although the deadline carries no legal authority, communities from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and other nations say the distinction between documented and undocumented migrants offers little protection, as hostility on the streets rarely begins with a check of paperwork. The South African government has ramped up deportations — processing over 86,000 foreign nationals between June and August — but has warned vigilante groups against taking enforcement into their own hands, leaving displaced refugees caught between anti-foreigner violence and a state facility, Lindela (a government immigration detention centre in Gauteng province), that many fear as much as the streets they fled.