Israel’s Netanyahu says he wants Eritrean migrants involved in violent clashes to be deported.
(He didn't call them immigrants, but infiltrators, of course western media whitewashing this racist SOB /Farhad).
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu said Sunday he wants Eritrean #migrants involved in a violent clash in #TelAviv to be deported immediately and has ordered a plan to remove all of the country’s African migrants.
“We want harsh measures against the rioters, including the immediate deportation of those who took part,” Netanyahu said in a special ministerial meeting called to deal with the aftermath of the violence.
About 25,000 African migrants live in Israel, mainly from #Sudan and #Eritrea, who say they fled conflict or repression. Israel recognizes very few as asylum seekers, seeing them overwhelmingly as economic migrants, and says it has no legal obligation to keep them.
The country has tried a variety of tactics to force them out, including sending some to a remote prison, holding part of their wages until they agree to leave the country or offering cash payments to those who agree to move to another country, somewhere in #Africa. Critics accuse the government of trying to coerce the migrants into leaving.
Migrants’ supporters say Israel, a country founded upon the ashes of the #Holocaust and built up by Jewish #refugees, should welcome those seeking asylum. Opponents claim migrants have brought crime to the low-income southern Tel Aviv neighborhoods where they have settled.