Sending back 25,000 is a good start

I do not accept that infiltrators from Sudan and Eritrea cannot be sent back. It depends on whether each person is “a person who, from fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, social group, or political opinion, has crossed an international frontier into a country in which he or she hopes to be granted refugee status”. Surely not every infiltrator from these two countries has a well grounded fear of persecution. Bibi has made a good start by ordering 25,000 to be sent back. Evidently they are not entitled to due process but for some reason the remaining ones are. Ted Belman

Netanyahu orders swift deportation of 25,000 illegal African migrants
Orders acceleration of holding facility construction for citizens of Eritrea and Sudan who cannot be deported due to conditions in their home countries.

By Barak Ravid, HAARETZ

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his ministers to accelerate efforts to deport citizens of South Sudan, the Ivory Coast, Ghana and Ethiopia who are living in Israel illegally on Sunday.

Speaking at Sunday’s cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said that while it is not possible to expel citizens of Eritrea and Sudan, whose lives would be at risk in their home countries, holding facilities for them must be built in the Negev as quickly as possible.

A senior Israeli official said that two different groups of infiltrators were presented during Sunday’s cabinet debate. The first was infiltrators from countries with which Israel has diplomatic relations, and with regard to whom there is no barrier to repatriating them under international law, he said. This group numbers some 25,000 of the approximately 60,000 African migrants now in Israel.

The second group comprises infiltrators from Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia, who cannot be repatriated because their lives would be at risk, according to the official. This group comprises some 35,000 people.

Sudan is classified as an enemy country, another reason that infiltrators can’t be returned there, he said, while Eritrea, though it has diplomatic relations with Israel, considers those who fled the country to be AWOL soldiers, and upon their return home they could be severely punished. Eritrea has a mandatory conscription law for all men aged 17-45, and demands reserve duty up to age 55. There are no exemptions.

With regard to the first group of infiltrators, Netanyahu said, “Whoever can be sent away should be sent away from here as quickly as possible.”

With regard to the second group, he said, “It’s clear that we cannot return Sudanis and Eritreans to their countries.”

During the cabinet debate, Netanyahu appeared impatient and dissatisfied with the conduct of the relevant ministries and banged on the table several times, according to sources who were present. He ordered a substantial expansion of the Saharonim lockup in the Negev so that it could hold the tens of thousands of people who can’t be repatriated.

He also ordered a team of interrogators put together to interview all those who will be brought to the Saharonim facility to determine whether they are indeed entitled to refugee status.

The Foreign Ministry has been conducting intensive discussions for several months with the governments of those countries whose citizens can be repatriated, a senior ministry source said.

For example, Israel is exerting heavy pressure on Ethiopia to begin returning its citizens who are in Israel illegally. Ethiopian diplomats have visited the Saharonim facility and interviewed Ethiopian nationals.

The Foreign Ministry has also been in regular contact with South Sudan, whose nationals are being given a chance to return voluntarily. On June 17 a plane carrying some 200 South Sudanese will fly from Israel to Juba, the South Sudan capital. In mid-July there will be another plane of South Sudanese who agreed to leave but asked to do so after the school year ends.

A senior Foreign Ministry source said that Israel has made it clear to countries like the Ivory Coast and Ghana that the government plans to deport their nationals, by force if necessary, and that if their governments don’t issue the migrants travel documents, then Israel will do so.

“We told them, ‘Either we do this together, or we will just put them on planes by ourselves,'” the senior official said.

The Foreign Ministry also said that over the past five years it has approached third countries to ascertain whether any of them would be willing to accept refugees from Eritrea or Sudan. Israeli diplomats were in touch with 30 African countries and 10 Western countries but were categorically refused.

“All the African states and many European ones are dealing with the same problem,” a senior source said. “Everyone to whom we addressed a request slammed the door in our faces.”

June 4, 2012 | 4 Comments »

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  1. Canadian Otter Said:

    Here is the border. Here are immigration laws. Infiltrator breaks the law. What do you do?

    dear otter,
    as my redneck friend used to say “now y’all keep talkin’ whahl ahm loadin’ ”

    so tired.
    so tired of all the talk, wasted energy, and b.s.

  2. UNRWA can take care of each genuine asylum seeker. Apparently this option has not been considered by the leaders of Israel, too busy preparing the EXPULSION OF JEWS from their homes.

    Either UNRWA or UNHCR.

    There, Israel even has the choice of TWO United Nations organizations whose job is to look after refugees.

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    Thankfully we hear some yawns as Israelis begin to stretch and wake up to the fact that this invasion is being organized by the usual suspects: the Left and their anti-Semite allies.

    Guy Belchor:

    http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=56938

    Unfortunately Belchor’s proposal is to bribe infiltrators with $2000 to leave. That sounds to me more like an incentive for more infiltration.

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    But there you go.

    Nobel Prize winners and geniuses who invent all kinds of wonderful things, can any of you come up with a simple solution to a simple problem?

    Should we help them out with a few diagrams perhaps?

    Or a simple formulation of the problem:

    – Here is the border. Here are immigration laws. Infiltrator breaks the law. What do you do?

    – Here is a genuine asylum seeker. Here are two international organizations funded to take care of refugees. Here are over 100,000 impossible to integrate refugees. And millions just waiting their turn to breach the border. What do you do?

    PS: This is not a criticism of Israel only. Here in Canada there is widespread abuse of asylum laws. Even mass murderers make it as a refugee, and it’s not easy to deport them. They have a lobby that protects third world immigrants, and the refugee process can take years, taking into account appeals and all that. And if they are ordered deported, they manage to disappear. It’s a big country after all.

    Israel can’t afford the tiniest mistake that will tilt its demographics the wrong way. Your leaders won’t help you. It’s the Jews that need to mobilize now.

  3. “Sending back 25,000 is a good start”
    ken yirboo!
    success breeds success.
    Rx:
    start with these ones. move on to the invented people.
    repeat ad lib. till land of israel is cleared of infectious element.
    apply same treatment, prn, to leftists,’journalists’, peacenow et al. and any and all useful idiots

  4. I understand that as these “refugees” had to first cross through Egypt, under international law, it is Egypt and not Israel that owes them asylum. Why not just let them off on the southern side of the new Israel/Egypt fence once complete from where they came?