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New bill aims to legalize deportation of illegal migrants denied refugee status

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Published on  11-21-2018 00:00
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New bill aims to legalize deportation of illegal migrants denied refugee status

Likud MK Sharren Haskel

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A new bill would allow the interior minister to deport ‎migrants whose refugee requests have been denied, as long as he consults on the matter with the foreign minister. ‎

The bill, sponsored by Likud MK Sharren Haskel, ‎states that if an illegal migrant has sought refugee status in ‎Israel because of a state of war in his country but that war ends, the ‎request will be denied and, after the interior and foreign ministers ‎confer, the migrant can be deported back to his ‎country.‎

‎"Over the past decade, tens of thousands of labor migrants, many ‎of them Eritrean, have infiltrated Israel and are seeking refugee ‎status," the bill's abstract states. ‎

‎"We recently learned that Eritrea and Ethiopia signed a peace ‎agreement that brings the war between them to an end. This may ‎enable the interior minister, whose office is responsible for setting ‎Israel's immigration policy, to send these asylum seekers back to ‎their country. " ‎

Population and Immigration Authority data shows that there are ‎currently 35,000 illegal migrants in Israel, around 25,000 of them, or 72%, from ‎Eritrea. There are also 7,250 illegal migrants from Sudan, 2,400 from other ‎African countries and 470 from elsewhere. ‎

Most illegal Eritrean migrants stay in Israel between six and 11 years . As of July 2018, 1,115 had left Israel voluntarily.‎

Haskel told Israel Hayom that her bill holds "the key to solving the ‎illegal migrant problem. Israel cannot contain tens of thousands of ‎illegal migrants‎ in its borders, and it is this illegal presence that ‎encourages others to come here. ‎

‎"The peace agreement signed in Eritrea paved the way for these ‎tens of thousands of illegal migrant ‎to return to their country, ‎where they no longer face mortal danger," she said. ‎

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