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Israel offers to pay African migrants to leave, threatens jail
« on: January 03, 2018, 04:07:37 pm »
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Israel offers to pay African migrants to leave, threatens jail
Jeffrey Heller

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Wednesday it would pay thousands of African migrants living illegally in the country to leave, threatening them with jail if they are caught after the end of March.
African migrants protest outside Israel's Supreme Court in Jerusalem January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in public remarks at a cabinet meeting on the payment program, said a barrier Israel completed in 2013 along its border with Egypt had effectively cut off a stream of “illegal infiltrators” from Africa after some 60,000 crossed the desert frontier.

The vast majority came from Eritrea and Sudan and many said they fled war and persecution as well as economic hardship, but Israel treats them as economic migrants.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-migrants/israel-offers-to-pay-african-migrants-to-leave-threatens-jail-idUSKBN1ES0UY

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Re: Israel offers to pay African migrants to leave, threatens jail
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2018, 04:21:58 pm »
Invite immigrants because you want cheap labor.
Create Welfare programs so you can feel good about yourself
Notice that your cheap labor has converted to expensive free-loading
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