Israel Planning Mass Deportation of Asylum Seekers, Migrant Workers
Bryan Atinsky
By the Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Israeli is preparing mass deportations of asylum seekers and migrant workers in the coming months, deportations to include thousands of small children born in Israel and who know no other home.
For this purpose, Israel recently created the Oz “task force,” slated to focus exclusively on finding, arresting, and deporting migrant workers and refugees without documents. Earlier this week the task force, which replaces the previously existing immigration police, detained nearly 90 migrant workers and refugees in Tel Aviv, including some legally allowed to work in Israel.
In parallel, the Israeli Knesset
is debating new bill that would subject “illegal immigrants” to five
years in prison, while giving seven years to those from “enemy
countries” or countries that aid Israeli defined enemy countries, the
latter which would include refugees fleeing the genocide in Darfur.
Only one Knesset Member, Dov Khenin of the Hadash party,
voted against this proposed legislation to date.
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Planned Mass Deportation in Israel will Hurt Many Asylum Seeking and Migrant Children
By the Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Among activists, lawyers, concerned citizens, refugees, and Knesset members, Israel’s new proposed bill to sentence illegal immigrants to at least five years in prison has sparked considerable controversy. Knesset members sponsoring the bill couch their justifications in economic terms, citing this as a means of fighting Israel’s rising unemployment and poverty levels. However, more critical opponents argue that the round up, arrest, and deportation of non-Jewish refugees and immigrants is a means for Israel to dodge its humanitarian responsibilities.
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