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Population and Immigration Authority: Zero ‘infiltrators' entered in 2017
[Jpost] Human rights organizations continue to decry ‐ as inhumane and antithetical to Jewish values ‐ the policy of forcibly removing African refugees to a country as perilous as Rwanda.Amid ongoing legislation to forcefully deport tens of thousands of African refugees to Rwanda, the Population and Migration Authority on Sunday released a report claiming no "infiltrators" entered Israel in 2017. Moreover, according to data submitted by the authority, 4,012 illegal residents voluntarily left the country, of whom 3,332 were from wartorn Sudan or Eritrea. Still, approximately 35,000 African asylum seekers remain in the country in varying states of legal limbo. Over the past year, a total of 2,550 asylum requests were made by Eritrean and Sudanese nationals, 7,710 requests were made by Ukrainians, and 7,710 were made by Georgian nationals, the authority said. However, the government continues to ignore the thousands of African asylum applications that it has received over the years. The issue of heightened border security reached a fever pitch in 2011, when 17,000 African migrants ‐ most of whom the government referred to as "infiltrators" ‐ entered the country, bringing the total to 64,000 by 2012. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-01-01 |
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