Israeli authorities today (February 4, 2018) began distributing letters to African migrants, telling them to leave the country within 60 days or go to prison, according to The Daily Beast website.
The deportation notices offer migrants a parting gift of $3,500 and a plane ticket if they depart for an African nation by April 1, 2018.
An estimated 40,000 African migrants -- many of them refugees from Sudan and Eritrea -- reside in Israel.
The government's deportation plan has been condemned by rabbis, writers, and Holocaust survivors, who say the move is racist and damages Israel's reputation as a refuge for Jewish migrants.
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