Israel’s Response to Immigration from Africa

Immigration news from the Middle East:

 “Israel’s Cabinet, hoping to stanch the illegal flow of Africans through the country’s porous southern border with Egypt, is scheduled to vote Sunday on a proposal to build a massive detention centre to hold the migrants. Some of the Africans seek political asylum, but officials say most come looking for work and have become absorbed into the country’s sizable illegal work force. The centre is meant to make infiltration a less attractive prospect, and will be voted on just days after Israel began building a barrier along the border.”

KJ