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.
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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