Israel Offers African Migrants a Choice: Ticket Out or Jail
Facebook wrote that The infiltrators have a clear choice — cooperate with us
and leave voluntarily, respectably, humanely and legally, or we will have to use other tools at our disposal, which are also according to the law.
Netanyahu said that The mission now,
Of nearly 14,000 asylum applications submitted by Eritrean
and Sudanese migrants to the Israeli authorities over the last five years, only 10 people have been granted refugee status — eight from Eritrea and two from Sudan, according to Ms. Sadot and the United Nations refugee agency.
Dror Sadot said that They are not being granted any status or work permits there, nor a safe haven,
According to a news report in Rwanda, the country’s foreign affairs minister said in November
that it was in negotiations with Israel to take in African migrants who did not want to return to their countries of origin, and that up to 10,000 asylum seekers could eventually be settled in Rwanda.
The new plan — promoted by Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party,
and Gilad Erdan, the public security minister, who is from Mr. Netanyahu’s conservative Likud Party — is the latest phase of a long-running political and legal struggle over the African migrants’ fate.
