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Old March 5th, 2013 #1
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Default 'Israel to use infiltrators law to return migrants'

Interior Minister Yishai says gov't will use detention centers as part of process of returning over 60,000 African migrants home.

Israel will use the "infiltrators law" and the detention centers in the South as part of a process of returning all of the over 60,000 African migrants back to their home countries, Interior Minister Eli Yishai said on Tuesday.

Yishai’s comments came during a press conference to present the findings of the “Soffer Committee,” set up some nine months ago to present findings on how to deal with Israel’s African migrant population. The committee was supposed to present findings after two months, but this week finally held a press conference, following a week of media stories in Israel alleging that hundreds of African migrants had been secretly returned to their home countries against their will.

The press conference came hours after Attorney-General Yehuda-Weinstein on Tuesday morning announced that it had ordered a stop to all transfers of Eritreans out of the country from Israel’s detention facilities until further notice.

During the press conference Yishai said that over 2,000 north Sudanese had already left Israel voluntarily, along with dozens of Eritreans.

Yishai said that he “doesn’t differentiate between north Sudan and South Sudan or between Eritrea and South Sudan” arguing that like the around 1,000 South Sudanese who were returned home last Summer, all of the Eritreans and North Sudanese will also be sent back.

North Sudan is an enemy state and citizens returning after having been in Israel stand to face persecution, as do Eritreans who flee the country and return to the state, considered one of the world’s worst human rights violators.

Though the Interior Ministry does not see eye to eye with the Foreign Ministry on the migrants issue, Yishai said he would work with them to ensure that all of the “infiltrators” leave the country, arguing that the detention centers in the south of Israel will give Israel a place to house all of the migrants who “will return willfully, because they won’t have a place to work and they won’t have a reason to stay in Israel.”

“We will get all of them out of here legally, willfully or not willfully through the use of the detention centers. We will use very tough, painful enforcement of the infiltrators law and move them into the detention centers, as soon as they are completed.”

There is room for an estimated 15,000 detainees at the detention centers in Israel’s south.

The recommendations of the committee are two-pronged, focusing on the prevention of “infiltration” and dealing with those “infiltrators” already in the country.

The prevention phase includes “studying the path of infiltration”, building new fences - presumably on the Jordanian border, strengthening the current fences, and providing new “legal backing” for Israeli soldiers operating on the borders.

The report also addresses human rights organizations, calling for “the adoption of policy for dealing with rights groups that await infiltrators arriving at the fences,” and also new entry regulations to the detention centers, directed at “negative elements,” including “inciters,” as well as greater penalties for those helping infiltrators defraud Israel.

The plan does also call for greater efforts to determine which of the migrants are refugees and which are infiltrators.

Yishai said he does not support giving work permits for African migrants to replace the new foreign workers Israel brings in annually, and also called for greater enforcement of regulations against employing illegal migrants.

Ran Cohen, head of the Physicians for Human Rights Israel, said that the reports findings "run contrary to the human rights obligations Israel has signed on to and to international law."

Cohen said the committee ignored the personal stories of refugees, the percentages by which such refugee claims are approved outside Israel, adding that "it appears that the council is not convinced that refugees are human beings with rights."

Cohen also criticized Yishai for the committee's statements against human rights organizations, which he called "warped and obtuse."

Orit Marom of the refugee aid organization "Assaf" said of the recommendations that Israel is witnessing "the deportation of asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea to death and torture in their home countries, against the most basic morals and Israeli and international law."

In a reality where a man must choose between indefinite jail and freedom and deportation there is no choice and therefore no "willful return".

When Yishai announced the formation of the committee, to be run by Professor Aharon Soffer a professor of geography at the University of Haifa and the National Defense College, he said that it was his intention “to do everything I can to solve the infiltrator problem in Israel once and for all.”

Soffer was also one of the architects of the Gaza disengagement plan and has long held the position that the majority of the African asylum seekers in Israel are migrant workers.

In a 2009 report, for the University of Haifa, he called NGOs that assist African migrants “the cartel of human rights organizations,” alleging that many of the NGO workers were post- Zionists looking to destroy the country’s Jewish-Zionist character.

Tuesday’s decision by the Attorney General followed reports that an asylum seeker, Tesfamihret Habtemariam, had been deported to Uganda and then to Cairo, where he now faces return to Eritrea.

According to Eritrean-Swedish human rights activist Meron Estefanos, who contacted The Jerusalem Post about the story Sunday night, Habtemariam left Israel for Uganda on Thursday and at the airport in Uganda was told he would not be allowed to enter. He said he was kept at the airport waiting for four days before Uganda decided to deport him to Eritrea by way of Cairo, where he is now awaiting a flight to Asmara.

Habtemariam's private attorney, Lior Peretz, said that he met with his client on many occasions over the past months, and that during the hearings at the court at Saharonim prison he requested to be sent back to Uganda, where his father reportedly lives.

Peretz said his client was happy to return to Uganda and not that he was forced to by the state or did so solely due to the threat of longer incarceration. Peretz said he sounded very at ease and happy once he heard that he had a ticket to Uganda, and would be moving back there. Peretz said that he has not heard from his client since Thursday, though he promised to call him once he arrived. In addition, Peretz said that once he heard about what reportedly happened to Habtemariam he told another client in the process of agreeing to return to Uganda to put things on hold for now.

In mid-February, the Hotline for Migrant Workers reported that a group of 25 Eritreans agreed to return to Uganda, but were instead taken to meet with a representative of the Eritrean embassy and told they would be returned to Eritrea. The group refused to be sent back.

The HMW and the United Nations Higher Council for Refugees (UNHCR) both said there does not appear to be any sort of coordination between Israeli authorities and the Ugandan government on the matter of resettling Eritrea asylum seekers in Uganda.

PIBA Spokeswoman Sabine Haddad said PIBA is checking reports of the incident, but that if Uganda were to return a migrant they would do so to the country from which they came, not to a third or fourth country. She added that returns of migrants from prison are no longer taking place.

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Ar...aspx?id=305398
 
Old March 12th, 2013 #2
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Default UN refugee agency petitions High Court to overturn ‘infiltration’ law

The case is a petition by all the human rights organizations fighting for refugee rights in Israel and a number of illegal immigrants seeking asylum − and it asks the High Court to make an exceptional decision and rule a law unconstitutional: The Law for the Prevention of Infiltration.


http://www.haaretz.com/news/national...emium-1.508765
 
Old September 16th, 2013 #3
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Thumbs down Judges say amendment to infiltration law violates human rights

The High Court of Justice unanimously on Monday invalidated the amendment to the Anti-Infiltration Law that allows the incarceration of asylum seekers from Africa for up to three years.

In its dramatic decision, an expanded panel of nine judges ruled that the law was unconstitutional and disproportionately impinged on a person’s right to liberty, as well as being in conflict with Israel’s Basic Law regarding human freedom and dignity. The court instructed the state to examine the cases of all those incarcerated under the provisions of this law within 90 days.


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had been a proponent of the law, said he respected the High Court's decision and would consider it accordingly while searching for a solution that would "enable the implementation of our firm policy to put the brakes on infiltration and return thousands of infiltrators" to their native lands.

"As many other countries in the world contend with the phenomena of infiltrations, we have halted it, and last month not a single infiltrator crossed over our southern border," Netanyahu said. "This result was achieved thanks the complex steps that have been taken, including the construction of a fence on our southern border. I am determined to continue to lead the government's activities in dealing with the phenomena of infiltration
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Likud MKs slam decision as 'sad' and 'insane'
MK Miri Regev (Likud) responded that “there are judges making decisions in Jerusalem, but the pain is felt in southern Tel Aviv. This decision is disconnected from events on the ground. This is a sad day for the residents of southern Tel Aviv. The Supreme Court has condemned them to a life of fear and anxiety. The decision has legitimized the phenomenon of infiltration. All the state’s efforts to reduce infiltration have been negated by this decision.

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Old December 10th, 2013 #5
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Default Israel passes law aimed at deterring African migrants

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Knesset passed legislation that will allow the state to detain illegal migrants without trial for one year.
The legislation, an amendment to the Anti-Infiltration Law, passed its final readings in the Israeli parliament late Monday night by a vote of 30-15 following a lengthy discussion.
It also allows the state to operate a detention facility for the mostly African migrants that will provide food and shelter, health care and social services. The facility, which will have room for 3,300 people, will be closed at night.
Under the amendment, the migrants will not be allowed to work.
The amendment was approved three months after Israel’s Supreme Court struck down one that went into effect in June 2012 allowing the state to hold illegal migrants for up to three years without trial.
The judges gave the state until Dec. 15 to examine the cases of 1,700 African migrants who are being held in Israeli detention centers under the current amendment. Some 707 migrants have been released, Haaretz reported, and the cases of 500 remain under review.
More than 50,000 African migrants are living in Israel.


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