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| African migrants given 3 months to leave Israel or face jail | |
| 2018-01-04 | |
Israel is notifying thousands of Africans who entered the country illegally that they have three months to leave or face incarceration. The Population and Immigration Authority called this week on ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... to leave "to their country or to a third country," meaning Rwanda or Uganda. Those who leave by the end of March will be given $3,500, along with airfare and other incentives. The ultimatum is part of a large-scale campaign to remove 42,000 illegal African Thousands of Africans entered Israel before it erected a fence along its border with Egypt. Many say they fled conflict and persecution and seek refugee status. Israel calls them "infiltrators" and says they are mostly economic Although the government unanimously approved a bill last month to close the Holot detention facility which houses African illegal im ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedomat the convenience of the state... groups. Israel and Rwanda recently signed an agreement whereby asylum seekers can be sent there even without their consent. Asylum seekers have been sent to Rwanda for the past three years as part of a plan encouraging voluntary emigration. Professor Galia Sabar, President of the Ruppin Academic Center, Chair of African Studies at Tel Aviv University and a scholar of Immigration, was the first to examine what actually happened to the Sudanese and Eritreans who left "willingly" to Rwanda with a promise that they would be able to start a new life there. "Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers cannot be returned to their country of origin according to the UN charter," explained Sabar. "But Israel assumes that since he is a black African, we can send him to another African country. But how can he cope there? He has no work, he does not speak the language, the state does not offer a social net and he is not in a familiar or welcoming environment." In August, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told residents of south Tel Aviv that he was facing a "mission to return" the area "back to Israel", three days after the High Court of Justice ruled that the State of Israel cannot detain illegal Paying a rare visit to south Tel Aviv‐the area which has been seriously affected by the wave of illegal migration in recent years that swept through Israel’s once-porous southern border‐Netanyahu inaugurated a new cop shoppe and received a briefing from the police, before addressing the matter. | |
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