FEDERAL Alliance leader Louis Luyt played on growing xenophobia in the Northern Province on Thursday by blaming the government for allowing foreigners to deprive South Africans of jobs. Addressing crowds of enthusiastic supporters in the provincial capital of Pietersburg on Wednesday and Thursday, Luyt added that the large numbers of illegal immigrants in South Africa contributed to the country’s spiraling violent crime rate. He said illegal immigrants often operated or participated in crime syndicates because they have no other means to legally support themselves.