The Isreali government has built a 9,000 person capacity detention
facility in the southern desert where illegal African Immigrants would
be detained. According to the Isreali government, the illegal immigrants
who seek asylum in the country are becoming a burden to the govt
and so they would be moved from the Shaharonim detention centre were
they are presently being held to the new facility, a place human rights group
have called a De-facto prison.
In
this new facility which is situated in the desert, the immigrants will be locked down at night, and forced to
check-in with
the Israeli authorities three times per day. They will also be barred
from working outside the centre. Continue after the break.
The illegal immigrants who are
more than 1000 would be moved into the facility without any trial or
charge and held up in the facility until the Isreali government is able
to repatriate them back to their countries.
The Isreali Government through an act of Parliament passed the
"Anti-Infiltration Law" which seeks to create a suitable balance between
the right of the State of
Israel to defend its borders and prevent infiltration, and its
obligation to act in a humanitarian manner toward anyone within its
borders and protect the human rights due to every person".
There are an estimated 54,000 African asylum seekers in Israel, with most coming from Sudan and Eritrea.
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