Interior Minister Eli Yishai announces that illegal infiltrators from North Sudan will be placed in holding facilities.
Interior Minister Eli Yishai announced on Wednesday that the campaign against infiltrators and illegal aliens will be going into ‘high gear’.
Yishai said that he instructed the Department of Immigration and Population to begin a new operation which will see illegal infiltrators from North Sudan being put into holding facilities starting on October 15. He noted that he had received the Prime Minister’s Offiice’s consent to the operation.
He emphasized that until that date, any infiltrators who wish to leave Israel willingly will be assisted by his office. Those who do not leave of their own accord will be jailed and deported in the future.
“Now I’m going to put all my weight to receive a legal permit that will allow imprisonment and deportation of infiltrators from Eritrea,” Yishai said. “This is another step in moving from talk to action with regard to the problem of infiltrators.”
He added that “those who want to continue to talk and be witnesses in a future commission of inquiry about the loss of Israel [to the infiltrators] – can talk, and those who want to act and ensure a Jewish and Zionist state for their children, should act. I am choosing to act.”
In recent years the State of Israel has been dealing with a wave of infiltrators from Africa. The infiltrators come in through the non-hermetically sealed border with Egypt.
An operation dubbed “Going Home”, which was launched a few months ago, combines a police crackdown with financial incentives for illegal infiltrators from South Sudan who leave by choice. Yishai has also instructed the Department of Immigration and Population to begin repatriating illegal alien infiltrators from the Ivory Coast.
Official statistics released on July 28 showed that illegal infiltration into Israel through Sinai had plummeted sharply over a period of two months.
The number of illegal immigrants who crossed the border up to that point in July was 244. In June, the number of infiltrators was 928. In May it was 2,031. This means the rate of infiltration had dropped by over 85% in two months.
Israel’s main problem remains the infiltrators from Eritrea and North Sudan, which make up the bulk of the infiltrators.
The UN Human Rights Council recently said that Eritrea was among the worst human rights offenders in Africa, with as many as 10,000 political prisoners held in prisons. In the wake of the comments, officials in Israel have admitted that the country would have a much harder time repatriating Eritreans.
Why not have a specially reserved cargo plane and when a planeload is collected, dump them on the front lawn of the UNHuman Rights Councll. They do all the talking, expecting other schmoks to do the work, so let them do the work themselves.
Yishai is doing a good job on this matter – one of pragmatism and expedience, I agree that a review of who should be allowed in is essential – one Jewish g/father and the rest not Jewish is IMO not a sufficient cause for [ forced] aliyah
Over the years the haters of Torah in Israel have tried to dilute the Jewishness of the State by increasing the Goyish population. Initially they did so by encouraging Arabs to come and live in Israel. Much later they brought in 500,000 Russian and Ukrainian Goyim. None of there previous efforts has helped them much. Now they are trying the same tactic with African illegals. It is the nature of hatred that the hater becomes so irrational in his hatred that he is willing to even do harm to himself and loved ones just to injure the ones he hates. This is especially true today when the haters can clearly see that they have lost the demographic battle, not with the Arabs but with the Jews. Israel is a very Jewish country and will only become more so.
Still there’s no policy.
Out of sight, out of mind?
What does the government plan to do with infiltrators who choose to be incarcerated, in the belief that they will eventually be released with residency papers into Jewish towns?
Turkey, which is 38 times bigger than Israel, has put a cap of 100,000 to the number of Syrian refugees it can absorb. And Syrians are fleeing a war zone, not looking for economic opportunities.
So far no one in the government has tried to get assistance from UNHCR, which has refugee camps already set up in Africa.
As for the rest, why not adopt a policy of immediate deportation?