Published time: May 15, 2015 11:14
Israel is offering illegal immigrants $3,500 and a
one-way ticket home as it begins to crack down on refugees, who face
prison if they don’t take up the deal. Rights groups are appalled at the
move, saying Israel should be doing more to protect them.
Israel says the tough move is necessary to send a message to
migrants that making the journey is not worthwhile in the first
place. As deterrents it has built a steel fence along the border
with Egypt, houses migrants in a detention camp in the middle of
a desert, and has stopped issuing work permits to deter would-be
migrants
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