Posted on 12/03/2014 11:37:05 AM PST by Olog-hai
As Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday effectively disbanded the coalition government, Yonatan Yakubovich, head of the NGO Israeli Immigration Policy Center’s publicity department, explained coming elections would harm the Infiltration Law.
Yakubovich told Arutz Sheva that “without a new law, they will be forced to release all the infiltrators; we anticipate that ahead of elections there will be difficult problems in passing the law and cooperation between the different parties will reduce.”
After the High Court struck down two earlier versions of laws proposing steps against illegal infiltrators, the Knesset on Sunday passed a watered-down version that would allow infiltrators to be held for three months in the Saharonim closed facility, then transferred to the open Holot facility to be held for up to 20 further months. […]
The tens of thousands of infiltrators have particularly exposed residents of southern Tel Aviv to endless crime, with many Jewish residents saying they are terrified of leaving their homes and begging the government to take action. …
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