Jerusalem – Israel OKs Funding To Block African Migrants

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    FILEJerusalem – The Israeli prime minister’s office says the Cabinet has approved a $160 million program designed to stanch the flow of illegal African migrants into Israel.

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    The plan calls for speeding up construction to complete within the coming year a border fence with Egypt. It is also meant to keep out Islamist militants.

    The program also involves the construction and expansion of detention facilities to hold the illegal migrants. Fines will also be stiffened for employers who hire them.

    The prime minister’s office said in a statement that the plan, which was approved in principle last year, received funding on Sunday.

    Israel says that since 2006, more than 40,000 migrants from Sudan, Eritrea, and other African nations have sneaked into the south of the country through the porous border with Egypt.


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    SherryTheNoahide
    SherryTheNoahide
    12 years ago

    This is very sad. It reminds me of what we’re having to do to poor migrants over here as well, JUST because there are bad illegals who come over & make trouble.

    I watched a television show one time, showing the conditions the poor people live in down in Mexico. Shameful. There wasn’t even a FLOOR to these people’s homes. Just dirt on the bottom w\makeshift items to use for the roof, etc. Like living in a Sukkah… except it’s for your entire life, and most Sukkahs are probably much nicer than how these people live!

    But what can any nation do?! There is so much poverty, genocide, etc. all over the place! Can all righteous & generous people feed them all? Of course not, so measures have to be taken to keep their own nation safe… and the poor people come 2nd. What else can be done??

    But it’s sad! It’s very sad! This summer alone, look at how many starved in the horn of Africa?! They say upwards of 50,000 died! Parents having to bury their children along the way, or decide which sick child they’re going to “let” die, so that the others can live?

    It’s hard not to hear these stories & wish there was something that could be done for them all.

    G-d bless.

    12 years ago

    Sudanese coming to Israel; why they are Arabs why not go to any of the fun loving Arab countries. Maybe they are telling the world but an Arab in Eretz Yisrael than and Arab in an Arab country. Please clinton and obama take notice

    12 years ago

    To Sherry (#1)-Although the poem which is carried by the Statue of Liberty (on the engraving) states “Give me your tired, your poor”, etc., it does not state “give me your illegal immigrants”. The USA now has over 315,000,000 people. The population has nearly doubled in the last 50 years. In physics, students are taught that a point of diminishing returns is reached. The USA no longer has the wild west to settle, as it once did. Regarding Mexico, it has very stringent laws about illegal immigrants settling in its own country from Central America, and elsewhere. Further, Eretz Yisrael, it doesn’t need illegal immigrants from Africa. EY is a Jewish state, and it should remain as a Jewish state.