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ISRAEL TO DEPORT AFRICAN ASYLUM SEEKERS TO UGANDA

August 30, 2013 at 6:44 am

The Israeli Ministry of the Interior has announced that it intends to

deport all 55,000 African asylum seekers from Israel to Uganda or

another African country within the next year a policy which is

completely the opposite of the open doors immigration policy

which the Jewish lobby in America,Canada and elsewhere demands

for all other nations, according to a report in the New Observer. The

news was confirmed by an article in the Jewish Times of Israel.

The Israeli policy was announced by Interior Minister Gideon Saar

on Wednesday this week, who said that his government had signed

an agreement with the first of three African countries (one of which

has been identified as Uganda), that will accept the deportees.

The east African nation will shelter Eritrean migrants and act as a

transit point for Sudanese people as they head back to their home

country, the Interior Minister said.

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The move to deport the Africans, set to begin in the coming weeks,

will also target those who refuse to leave by clamping down on the

conditions of their stay in Israel.

In the first stage we will focus on raising awareness and

information among the migrant population while also helping to

make all the exit arrangements, Saar told the Knesset Internal

Affairs and Environment Committee.

He said that Israel will pay for the cost of the flights and provide a

financial package that would take into consideration any money and

property the migrants have accumulated during their time in the

country.

The second stage of the plan will begin in earnest after the coming

month of Jewish holidays in September, and will include a direct

appeal to the migrants to leave of their own accord within a defined

time period, Saar told the Knesset panel.

In addition, the state will begin taking action against those who

refuse to go by no longer routinely extending their permits to stayin the country as well enforcing laws against the migrants who work

and those who employ them.

The minister said Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein approved the

plan a few days ago.

According to statistics from the Immigration and Absorption

Authority, there are some 55,000 African migrants in Israel, 90% of

them from Eritrea and Sudan.

Israel is also engaged in advanced negotiations with four other

countries to absorb African migrants. The countries in question

have asked not to be named, according to an affidavit submitted to

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by Special Envoy Hagai Hadas,

who said he recently visited the countries to advance the deal.

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The Knesset committee approved several new regulations aimed at

preventing more illegal migration, restricting the amount of money

African migrants can send out of the country and regulating the

process for migrants to take their money and property with them

when they leave.

Migrants will be allowed to take the equivalent value of the Israeli

minimum wage multiplied by the number of weeks they have been in

the country, but no more than that.

These regulations are another deterrent against the spread of

[illegal immigration], Saar said in the meeting. There are still

tens of thousands of [African migrants] today, and we should [make

it harder for them to stay] using [regulations that create] a negative

economic impact [on them].

Saar said that the plan would lead to the departure of thousands of

migrants over the next year. I expect the infiltrators leave at a

rate of 2,000 to 3,000 per year, he said. I am certain that it will

reach much greater numbers after the plan involving the third

country gains momentum. I remind you that there are 55,000.