Posted on 02/16/2008 12:12:31 PM PST by forkinsocket
Cairo, Egypt (AHN) - Egyptian border police shot and killed an Eritrean refugee on Saturday who was attempting to sneak into Israel, security officials said. According to initial reports, the woman had been attempting to smuggle herself and her two children across the border when Egyptian soldiers, who said she disobeyed orders before opening fire, caught her, according to reports.
Security officials in the Sinai Peninsula have said that the woman's' daughters, aged 8 and 10, have been taken into custody.
In recent months, Israel has continually called on Cairo to do a better job at stemming the tide of African refugees coming across the border because they are becoming increasingly bitter at the living conditions in the North African nation. In response, Egypt has established more patrols and police along the lengthy desert border with the Jewish state.
The result has seen at least a dozen refugees shot and killed by border guards after police say they refused to stop.
Israel has reported that approximately 3,000 refugees have entered the country over the past few years. Many of those refugees who have found work in Israel have called on Tel Aviv to grant them residency status. Israel announced last year that they would give asylum to a certain number of refugees already residing inside Israel.
Someone knows how to guard a border.
Some things are just universal, aren't they? And these refugees are Arabs, not Jews.
Israel’s fault, I’m sure. /s
I’m sure there is more where she came from.
Sounds like what we need to do on our borders. Damn French Canadians.
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And here I thought you were referring to the tons of Americans trying to get into Canada for their wonderful health care......
A joke, I live in Florida and each year we get invaded by cheap Canadians. The french Canadians especially sully our beaches wearing speedos.
They eventually leave and few take jobs like those invading from our southern border who stay for the freee lifestyle.
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