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Even if a child of an unregistered migrant worker is born and raised in Korea, he or she can stay in Korea without being deported until after graduating from high school. Upon graduation, they are subject to deportation, and the National Human Rights Commission has put a brake on this reality.

Reporter Jeong Ban-seok reports.

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A high school student A with parents of unregistered migrant workers.

I grew up in Korea and grew up and studied EBS lectures like any high school student, but I can't take the SAT exam.

This is because there is neither a resident number nor an alien registration number.

[A Yang / High School, 3rd grade: The dark future of being kicked out of a place where I grew up was so anxious and afraid ... I wish I could go to college and dream about the future afterwards.]

Yang B, who graduated from high school this year, is in the same situation.

[B amount / high school graduates. I think even the first time going to the country inde there also continues to adapt live live because it that hard to be anything to do, where to did not want]

migrant workers children of two until high school graduation in accordance with the Department of Justice guidelines Deportation will be suspended, but will be deported after graduation.

The National Human Rights Commission of Korea recommended to the Ministry of Justice that it should come up with a plan to provide domestic immigration status to children of immigrant workers, such as two students.

"Regardless of the will of the person, I only grew up in Korea," he said. "Forcing the eviction is to harm human dignity."

[Lee Tak-gun Lee, Dongcheon, a foundation / foundation corporation: I was not born in Korea at my own option, nor did I lose my status of residence at my option. Now that South Korea has now come to an adult've grown as a member feeling that the attitude of the Ministry of Justice say they should be evicted forcibly unfair (filed complaints.)

Cheongju District Court is also asked to cancel the deportation for the last Nigerian based undocumented alien children in 2018 I ruled.

Following the court's decision, the decision of the NHRCK is also made, and it is noted whether the government will take measures to improve it.

(Video coverage: Gongjin-gu, Image editing: Seung-jin Lee, CG: Hyun-jung Jeong)