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Titolo: Israeli lawmakers approve harsh penalties for illegal migrants

Peggio della Bossi-Fini.
 
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Israeli lawmakers approve harsh penalties for illegal migrants
 
JERUSALEM — Israel’s parliament on Tuesday approved harsh new penalties 
on illegal migrants and Israelis who help them, passing one of several 
controversial measures designed to stanch the flood of Africans seeking 
sanctuary from poverty and conflict.
 
The bill makes it possible to imprison illegal migrants for life over 
property crimes and detain them for up to three years without trial. 
Anyone caught helping migrants could face prison terms of five to 15 years.
 
Critics deplore the new law and say it is an unconstitutional trampling 
of human rights. They accuse the government of failing to formulate a 
coherent, humane policy on illegal migration that would address an issue 
that has become increasingly urgent over the years.
 
Africans began trickling into Israel through its porous southern border 
with Egypt’s Sinai desert after Egyptian security forces violently 
quashed a demonstration by a group of Sudanese refugees in 2005. The 
number of migrants surged as word spread of safety and job opportunities 
in the relatively prosperous Jewish state. The government estimates 
50,000 Africans have illegally entered Israel since.
 
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has called the swelling number of 
illegal migrants a “national scourge,” voted for the bill. His 
spokesman, Mark Regev, called the legislation part of a “multitiered 
strategy to deal with the challenge of illegal immigration to Israel.” 
He would not comment on critics’ concerns about the new law.
 
Lawmaker Amnon Cohen, of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, said he 
sponsored the bill “to defend Israeli society.”
 
“Go to south Tel Aviv and you’ll see people there living in fear,” Cohen 
said. “Anyone who wants to steal a wallet from a person, or a box of 
goods from a store or a bike from a private garden just does whatever he 
wants. If we don’t put an end to this, the issue will not stop.”
 
Migrant advocates contend the Africans are bona fide refugees and should 
be granted asylum. They accuse the government of ignoring the 
retribution most of the migrants face should they return home.
 
In a commentary Monday, retired Judge Boaz Okon, the legal affairs 
analyst of the Yediot Ahronot newspaper, said the new bill gives 
authorities “unlimited license to employ terror against anyone who 
reaches Israel.”
 
The influx has touched off a national debate in a country that grew out 
of the Nazi genocide of Jews.
 
Some believe the migrants are an economic and social burden and fear 
their mounting numbers will dilute Israel’s Jewish character.
 
“If we don’t put an end to the phenomenon of infiltrators, all of 
Israel’s social systems will collapse,” Netanyahu’s Cabinet secretary, 
Tzvi Hauser, told Israel Radio.
 
Others say the Jewish people, because of their history of persecution, 
must be especially accommodating of others escaping persecution or conflict.
 
Dov Hanin, a communist lawmaker, said the law was “problematic and illegal.”
 
“This law contradicts Israel’s obligations according to international 
law, it goes against the human norm of helping refugees running for 
their lives, and it flies in the face of the Jewish principles of 
honoring the stranger among us,” Hanin said.
 
Israel already has repatriated hundreds of Africans and Netanyahu has 
said he would explore the possibility of repatriating others when he 
visits Africa this year.
 
Last month, the Cabinet voted to finance a $160 million program to 
finish building a 150-mile (250-kilometer) border fence along the 
Egyptian border and expand detention facilities to hold thousands of new 
arrivals. Employers who hire illegal migrants now face stiffened fines 
of up to $18,000.
-- 
Namib
 
Nous n'arrivons pas à changer les choses suivant notre désir, mais peu à 
peu notre désir change (M. Proust)

 Peggio della Bossi-Fini.
 
e sono gia' pronti i forni crematori.


Vi basta mandarli nel Sinai, e ci pensa il sole. Così risparmiate sul
gas

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e pensa pure di essere divertente.

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i migranti che creperanno nel deserto grazie all'ennesimo muro di
ferro, e gli israeliani di buona volontà che rischiano 15 anni ad
aiutarli, pensano che non ci sia niente da ridere in quelle leggi

 ferro, e gli israeliani di buona volontà
 
sei evangelico.

 
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La Bossi-Fini è acqua fresca al confronto, soprattutto lo è il contesto 
italiano al confronto di quello israeliano.  Da noi, giustamente, certe 
leggi vengono applicate con assai scarso rigore.
 
-- 
Sostieni Rete ECO
 
http://rete-eco.it/it/sostienici.html
 
 

 leggi vengono applicate con assai scarso rigore.
 
sarà per questo che c'è in media un'evasione di massa dai CPT alla
settimana. Sono trattati troppo bene...

 settimana. Sono trattati troppo bene...
 
Non dico questo, dico che in Israele una evasione alla settimana dai CPT 
sarebbe improbabile.
 
Come sarebbe improbabile che gli evasi dai CPT potessero andarsene in 
giro per il paese a cercarsi un lavoro.