[Peace-discuss] Racism of the Obama administration

[C. G. Estabrook]

[What we support & pay for.]

     Israel OKs camp for African migrants
     Mon Nov 29, 2010 6:10AM

Israel's cabinet has approved a plan to build a detention center in a remote 
desert area that will house thousands of migrants from Africa.

The Africans will be kept in the facility planned to be built in the southern 
Negev desert until they are deported, Ha'aretz reported.

"We must stop the mass entry of illegal migrant workers because of the very 
serious threat to the character and future of Israel," Israeli Prime Minister 
Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday.

Tel Aviv says the plan is to have an "open" holding center, but that the 
facility would be in a largely uninhabited area far from the nearest town, 
probably at or near the site of a former prison camp for Palestinians deep in 
the desert.

Last week, Israel started the construction of a barrier mounted with electronic 
surveillance on the border with Egypt's Sinai desert in a move it said was aimed 
at stemming the inflow of migrants.

Israel said last week that over 35,000 migrants had entered in the past few 
years and that up to 20,000 migrants were expected to enter illegally in 2011.

But critics downplay the threat Netanyahu described and argue that immigrants 
take jobs Israelis refuse to do.

They say the main reason behind the construction of the center is that the 
immigrants are not Jewish.

Israel grants Jewish migrants automatic citizenship, while non-Jews are branded 
as illegal workers.

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