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JERUSALEM - Israeli security officials have arrested 62 Africanmigrants in the past two days as part of a new operation to deportillegal aliens. Human rights activists are protesting, saying thegovernment should first determine their asylum status. The migrants are mostly from South Sudan. A local representative of Human Rights Watch, Bill Van Esveld, saidthe move points to an alarming trend by the Israeli government. "Arrests should only be used as a last resort. Israel hasbasically an ad-hoc and very disorganized immigration system. Itdoesn't really have much of a policy when it comes to anyone who isnot Jewish," Van Esveld said. He notes that the government has been increasingly concerned overgrowing numbers of immigrants, primarily from Africa, who areslipping across the 240-kilometer-long border with Egypt. The Israeli parliament passed a law this year allowing thegovernment to detain any person who sneaks into the country. Van Esveld says arrests began after the government announced itwould begin enforcing the law. "The problem with this measure is that it allows for thepotential indefinite detention of asylum seekers who are crossingthe Egyptian border with Israel irregularly. And the problem thereis that this flies in the face of Israel's obligations under theRefugee Convention," Van Esveld Van Esveld says the Israeli government has a duty to determinewhether any refugee will face persecution if returned home. But hesays the government makes the process difficult and approves asylumin less than one percent of the cases. The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says about60,000 Africans have entered Israel in the past seven years.Eighty-five percent are Eritrean or northern Sudanese. Most saythey fear persecution in their home countries. The Israeli government believes that most are seeking work. Themigrants' Israeli supporters say that is not necessarily true andthe government should investigate each case individually. Analysts say the Israeli government is under increasing pressurebecause of recent attacks by extremist Israelis against Africanmigrants whom they blame for rising crime rates - despitegovernment figures to the contrary. Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai said the government wouldbegin enforcing the law against South Sudanese first. A leader of the South Sudanese community in the Israeli border cityof Eilat, Moses Gadia, said many South Sudanese had heard thedeportations were about to begin and had prepared to leavevoluntarily. "All the community is going to register and they are waitingfor when they are going to leave the country. We are surprised bywhy they are taking people to prison," Gadia said. Migrants from other African countries have been detained, includingfrom Nigeria, Ghana and Ivory Coast. Hundreds of African migrants marched Sunday to the U.N. RefugeeAgency offices in Tel Aviv, protesting against the mistreatment ofrefugees in Israel. Human Rights Watch also criticized some Israeli politicians forinflammatory remarks about migrants. Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu has condemned the violence against them though hesupports the deportation measures. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as Brother Printer Toner Cartridges Manufacturer , China OPC Drums, and more. For more , please visit Black Laserjet Toner Cartridge today!
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